chaussée

/\ʃo.se\/ noun

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.

Key facts for chaussée
PropertyValue
Headwordchaussée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃo.se\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,223
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chaussée in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Sorte de talus qu’on fait au bord d’une rivière, d’un étang, pour retenir l’eau.
  2. 2
    Talus que l’on élève dans les lieux bas, humides et marécageux, pour servir de chemin de passage.
  3. 3
    Partie médiane d’une rue ou d’une route où passent les véhicules, par contraste avec les trottoirs, bas-côtés, ou bermes, réservés aux piétons.
  4. 4
    Ouvrage artificiel transversal présent dans le lit d’un cours d’eau permettant de réguler l’écoulement de l’eau en formant un barrage.
  5. 5
    Voie de circulation reliant généralement deux villes, deux bourgs.
  6. 6
    Sac de la huche du moulin.
  7. 7
    Écueil 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)
  8. 8
    Pièce de la cadrature d’une montre.

This word in other languages

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"

cahussée8cchaussée9chasusée8chaussee8chausseé8chausée7chausése8chhaussée9
Misspelling Variants of "chaussée"

Frequency rank: #5,223 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chaussée"?
"chaussée" is spelled C-H-A-U-S-S-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃo.se\.
What does "chaussée" mean?
As a noun, "chaussée" means: Sorte de talus qu’on fait au bord d’une rivière, d’un étang, pour retenir l’eau.
What words are commonly confused with "chaussée"?
"chaussée" is commonly confused with "classée", "chausson", "chausser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chaussée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chaussée" is \ʃo.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chaussée" come from?
"chaussée" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.