chevrette

/\ʃə.vʁɛt\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#62,853

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chevrette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite chèvre, chevreau femelle. Pronounced \ʃə.vʁɛt\.

Key facts for chevrette
PropertyValue
Headwordchevrette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃə.vʁɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#62,853
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chevrette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.vʁɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,853 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for chevrette 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 chevrette, spelled C-H-E-V-R-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite chèvre, chevreau femelle.
  2. 2
    Femelle du chevreuil.
  3. 3
    ou (Antilles françaises, Guyane, Océanie française, Vendée), , Nom vulgaire de la crevette (animal crustacé) ; on désigne également du nom de chevrettes d’autres petits arthropodes, notamment les gamarres (genre Gammarus spp.).
  4. 4
    Petit chenet sans branche, trépied.
  5. 5
    Petite machine pour soulever.
  6. 6
    Outil de cirier, de paumier.
  7. 7
    Vaisseau à bec, pour les sirops.
  8. 8
    Petit sac en peau de chèvre.
  9. 9
    Nom vulgaire du lucane.
  10. 10
    Instrument proche de la cornemuse, cabrette.

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Frequency rank: #62,853 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chevrette"?
"chevrette" is spelled C-H-E-V-R-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃə.vʁɛt\.
What does "chevrette" mean?
As a noun, "chevrette" means: Petite chèvre, chevreau femelle.
How do you pronounce "chevrette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chevrette" is \ʃə.vʁɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chevrette" come from?
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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.