cheval de trait
\ʃə.val də tʁɛ\
The verdict
“cheval de trait” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cheval sélectionné pour ses aptitudes à la traction de véhicules (voitures) et de matériaux de toutes sortes, appartenant à une race puissante, de grande taille et calme : attelage, travail agricol...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheval de trait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.val də tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cheval de trait” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cheval de trait is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃə.val də tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cheval sélectionné pour ses aptitudes à la traction de véhicules (voitures) et de matériaux de toutes sortes, appartenant à une race puissante, de grande taille et calme : attelage, travail agricol...".
cheval de trait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cheval de trait, spelled C-H-E-V-A-L- -D-E- -T-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Cheval sélectionné pour ses aptitudes à la traction de véhicules (voitures) et de matériaux de toutes sortes, appartenant à une race puissante, de grande taille et calme : attelage, travail agricole des champs (labour) ou des forêts (débardage), et aussi souvent tourisme attelé (traction de roulotte ou de chariot bâché), boucherie (viande).
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cheval de trait”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-V-A-L- -D-E- -T-R-A-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃə.val də tʁɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.