chèvre

/\ʃɛvʁ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,214

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

chèvre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Genre de mammifère de l’ordre des ruminants, à cornes creuses et persistantes et à menton garni d’une barbe. Pronounced \ʃɛvʁ\. It ranks #8,214 in French word frequency. Often confused with crevé and couvre.

Key facts for chèvre
PropertyValue
Headwordchèvre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɛvʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,214
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chèvre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chèvre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛvʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,214 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for chèvre, with forms such as "cchèvre", "chevre", and "chhèvre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crevé", "couvre", "cuivre", and more, 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 chèvre, spelled C-H-È-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Genre de mammifère de l’ordre des ruminants, à cornes creuses et persistantes et à menton garni d’une barbe.
  2. 2
    La femelle de ce mammifère, qui a pour mâle le bouc.
  3. 3
    Action de jouer à arrocher ou à lapider une chèvre.
  4. 4
    Dispositif propre à élever des fardeaux, des poutres ou sur lequel on appuie quelque chose. → voir grue d’atelier
  5. 5
    Outil composé de deux croix de Saint-André, sur lesquelles on pose des morceaux de bois pour les scier. → voir chevalet à bois
  6. 6
    Table à trois pieds pour faire des fromages.
  7. 7
    Officier ou un agent envoyé volontairement à un service de renseignement pour être recruté comme agent double.
  8. 8
    Huitième signe astrologique chinois. → voir Bélimouchèvre, chèvre d’eau, chèvre de bois, chèvre de feu, chèvre de terre et chèvre de métal
  9. 9
    Dispositif qui sert à maintenir la fusée d’un moulin à soie.
  10. 10
    Pieux sur lesquels on pose les filets.
  11. 11
    Bon à rien.
  12. 12
    Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle se blasonne comme le bouc dont elle se distingue par les cornes et n’a pas de vilénie voire par l’ajout de pis dans les représentations moins stylisées. À rapprocher de bouc, bouquetin, chamois et mouflon.
  13. 13
    Boisson alcoolisée mousseuse obtenue par fermentation sous pression de jus de pomme ou de raisin.
  14. 14
    Surnom donné à l'insecte appelé hydromètre.
  15. 15
    Meuble qui permet de suspendre des affiches et objets.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cchèvre,chevre,chhèvre,chvère,chèrve,chèver,chèvrre,chèvvre,cèhvre,hcèvre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chèvre

Misspelling Variants of "chèvre"

cchèvre7chevre6chhèvre7chvère6chèrve6chèver6chèvrre7chèvvre7
Misspelling Variants of "chèvre"

Frequency rank: #8,214 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chèvre"?
"chèvre" is spelled C-H-È-V-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɛvʁ\.
What does "chèvre" mean?
As a noun, "chèvre" means: Genre de mammifère de l’ordre des ruminants, à cornes creuses et persistantes et à menton garni d’une barbe.
What words are commonly confused with "chèvre"?
"chèvre" is commonly confused with "crevé", "couvre", "cuivre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chèvre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chèvre" is \ʃɛvʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chèvre" come from?
"chèvre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.