cheval de course

/\ʃə.val də kuʁs\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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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\.

Key facts for cheval de course
PropertyValue
Headwordcheval de course
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃə.val də kuʁs\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cheval de course is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    Cheval utilisé pour une course de cheval, généralement un cheval à sang chaud : pur-sang ou demi-sang.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cheval de course"?
"cheval de course" is spelled C-H-E-V-A-L- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃə.val də kuʁs\.
What does "cheval de course" mean?
As a noun, "cheval de course" means: Cheval utilisé pour une course de cheval, généralement un cheval à sang chaud : pur-sang ou demi-sang.
How do you pronounce "cheval de course"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cheval de course" is \ʃə.val də kuʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cheval de course" come from?
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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.