cheval de course
Letters
16 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
cheval de course is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cheval utilisé pour une course de cheval, généralement un cheval à sang chaud : pur-sang ou demi-sang. Pronounced \ʃə.val də kuʁs\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheval de course |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.val də kuʁs\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for cheval de course is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.val də kuʁs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cheval utilisé pour une course de cheval, généralement un cheval à sang chaud : pur-sang ou demi-sang.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cheval de course in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 cheval de course, spelled C-H-E-V-A-L- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cheval utilisé pour une course de cheval, généralement un cheval à sang chaud : pur-sang ou demi-sang.
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