cheval lorrain
\ʃə.val lɔ.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“cheval lorrain” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ancienne race de petits chevaux de labeur originaire de Lorraine, laids et chétifs ce qui leur évitait d’être réquisitionnés par l’armée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheval lorrain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.val lɔ.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cheval lorrain” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cheval lorrain is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.val lɔ.ʁɛ̃\. 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: "Ancienne race de petits chevaux de labeur originaire de Lorraine, laids et chétifs ce qui leur évitait d’être réquisitionnés par l’armée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cheval lorrain in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 lorrain, spelled C-H-E-V-A-L- -L-O-R-R-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ancienne race de petits chevaux de labeur originaire de Lorraine, laids et chétifs ce qui leur évitait d’être réquisitionnés par l’armée.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-V-A-L- -L-O-R-R-A-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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