chausses
\ʃos\
The verdict
“chausses” is uncommon French (frequency #68,131 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,131
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie du vêtement des hommes qui couvrait depuis la ceinture jusqu’aux genoux ou plus bas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chausses · chausses · French
chausses · rank #68,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,131
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chatouilles
Nearest frequency peer: chatouilles (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chausses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charms
charms
31,873 corpus weight
- charo
charo
31,872 corpus weight
- chatouilles
chatouilles
31,871 corpus weight
- chausses
chausses
31,870 corpus weight
- checklist
checklist
31,868 corpus weight
- Chedid
Chedid
31,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chausses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chausses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃos\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chausses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chausses is uncommon French at frequency #68,131 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie du vêtement des hommes qui couvrait depuis la ceinture jusqu’aux genoux ou plus bas.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chausses, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chausses, spelled C-H-A-U-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Partie du vêtement des hommes qui couvrait depuis la ceinture jusqu’aux genoux ou plus bas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chausses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; l’autre, son barda sur l’épaule, les chausses lui dégringolant le long des jambes, la tête rejetée en arrière et s'envoyant un jet de sa gourde dans le gosier, a l’allure épaisse et la trogne truculente d’un rustaud des Flandres.
[…] ses chausses lui étant tombées sur les jarrets.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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