chaussette
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,263
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
chaussette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bas qui s’arrête à mi-jambe, qui se porte à l'intérieur d’une chaussure. Pronounced \ʃo.sɛt\. Often confused with chaussettes and chaussée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaussette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃo.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chaussette is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃo.sɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,263 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for chaussette, with forms such as "cahussette", "cchaussette", and "chasusette". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "chaussettes", "chaussée", "cassette", 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 chaussette, spelled C-H-A-U-S-S-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bas qui s’arrête à mi-jambe, qui se porte à l'intérieur d’une chaussure.
- 2Partie inférieure de la patte d’un quadrupède lorsque la coloration de son pelage est différente à cet endroit.
- 3Bas que l'on mettait sous d'autres bas. Sorte de bas sans pied.
- 4Sorte de tube fermé en tissu, qui servait à filtrer le café.
- 5Tube étanche fermé à une extrémité permettant d’introduire un objet dans un milieu, sans contact direct.
- 6Segment de tresse servant à la jonction de la soie et du backing.
- 7Dispositif constitué de tissus synthétiques, fixable aux pneus des voitures pour éviter le dérapage sur la neige.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahussette,cchaussette,chasusette,chausestte,chausette,chaussete,chaussetet,chausstete,chhaussette,chuassette,hcaussette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chaussette
Misspelling Variants of "chaussette"
Frequency rank: #21,263 in French
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