chien de la casse
\ʃjɛ̃ də la kas\
The verdict
“chien de la casse” 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) - Personne ou être vindicatif, peu scrupuleux ou agressif dont les fins justifient les moyens employés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chien de la casse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃjɛ̃ də la kas\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chien de la casse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chien de la casse is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃjɛ̃ də la kas\. 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: "Personne ou être vindicatif, peu scrupuleux ou agressif dont les fins justifient les moyens employés.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chien de la casse 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 chien de la casse, spelled C-H-I-E-N- -D-E- -L-A- -C-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne ou être vindicatif, peu scrupuleux ou agressif dont les fins justifient les moyens employés.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-I-E-N- -D-E- -L-A- -C-A-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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