chaussée
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,223
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
chaussée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de talus qu’on fait au bord d’une rivière, d’un étang, pour retenir l’eau. Pronounced \ʃo.se\. It ranks #5,223 in French word frequency. Often confused with classée and chausson.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaussée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃo.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chaussée is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃo.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,223 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for chaussée, with forms such as "cahussée", "cchaussée", and "chasusée". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "classée", "chausson", "chausser", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chaussée, spelled C-H-A-U-S-S-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de talus qu’on fait au bord d’une rivière, d’un étang, pour retenir l’eau.
- 2Talus que l’on élève dans les lieux bas, humides et marécageux, pour servir de chemin de passage.
- 3Partie médiane d’une rue ou d’une route où passent les véhicules, par contraste avec les trottoirs, bas-côtés, ou bermes, réservés aux piétons.
- 4Ouvrage artificiel transversal présent dans le lit d’un cours d’eau permettant de réguler l’écoulement de l’eau en formant un barrage.
- 5Voie de circulation reliant généralement deux villes, deux bourgs.
- 6Sac de la huche du moulin.
- 7Écueil allongé dépassant légèrement le niveau de la mer. — (IHO SP-23, 4ᵉ édition (en préparation), Nomenclature des espaces maritimes au 01.01.2004, Commission nationale de toponymie [de France] (CNT), Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine (SHOM), au nom de l’OHI (Organisation hydrographique internationale), 2004)
- 8Pièce de la cadrature d’une montre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahussée,cchaussée,chasusée,chaussee,chausseé,chausée,chausése,chhaussée,chuassée,hcaussée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chaussée
Misspelling Variants of "chaussée"
Frequency rank: #5,223 in French
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