chèvre domestique
\ʃɛvʁ dɔ.mɛs.tik\
The verdict
“chèvre domestique” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ruminant fissipède à 2 cornes creuses, sans mufle et dont le menton est garni d’une barbe, domestiqué surtout pour sa viande (dont les chevreaux), pour sa peau ou sa toison, et, plus spécialement d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chèvre domestique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛvʁ dɔ.mɛs.tik\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chèvre domestique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chèvre domestique is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛvʁ dɔ.mɛs.tik\. 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: "Ruminant fissipède à 2 cornes creuses, sans mufle et dont le menton est garni d’une barbe, domestiqué surtout pour sa viande (dont les chevreaux), pour sa peau ou sa toison, et, plus spécialement d...".
chèvre domestique has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chèvre domestique, spelled C-H-È-V-R-E- -D-O-M-E-S-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Ruminant fissipède à 2 cornes creuses, sans mufle et dont le menton est garni d’une barbe, domestiqué surtout pour sa viande (dont les chevreaux), pour sa peau ou sa toison, et, plus spécialement dans la région méditerranéenne, pour son lait, avec lequel on fait des fromages de chèvre.
Synonyms
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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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-È-V-R-E- -D-O-M-E-S-T-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.