chose

/\ʃoz\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#158

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

chose is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet, idée ou abstraction quelconque, sans pouvoir, vouloir, ou devoir l’identifier ou la nommer. Note d’usage : La signification du mot chose se déduit par la manière dont on l’emploie dans la ph... Pronounced \ʃoz\. It ranks #158 in French word frequency. Often confused with coe and code.

Key facts for chose
PropertyValue
Headwordchose
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃoz\
Letters5
Frequency rank#158
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chose is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃoz\. Corpus data places it at rank #158 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for chose, with forms such as "cchose", "chhose", and "choes". 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, "coe", "code", "côte", 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 chose, spelled C-H-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Objet, idée ou abstraction quelconque, sans pouvoir, vouloir, ou devoir l’identifier ou la nommer. Note d’usage : La signification du mot chose se déduit par la manière dont on l’emploie dans la phrase, où il remplace ce qu’il n’est pas possible (ou pas souhaitable) de nommer. Peut aussi remplacer un ensemble d’objets inanimés (ou d’idées) qu’on devine par le contexte.
  2. 2
    Mot, idée, évènement ou énumération dont on parle.
  3. 3
    Concept, idée, ce qui a été, est, ou sera dit ou fait.
  4. 4
    Événements (voire des forces) qui dépassent l'entendement et que des mots ne sauraient retranscrire.
  5. 5
    Dans des expressions.
  6. 6
    Inanimé par opposition à la personne.
  7. 7
    Ce qui est réel, par opposition au nom ou au mot.
  8. 8
    Personne.
  9. 9
    Bien, possession, propriété.
  10. 10
    Tout ce qui est distinct des personnes et des actions et qui peut être de quelque usage humain.
  11. 11
    Parties génitales masculines.
  12. 12
    Mot-joker employé pour remplacer un mot qu’on se refuse à prononcer ou à écrire.
  13. 13
    Ce qui concerne l’acte sexuel.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cchose,chhose,choes,chosse,chsoe,cohse,hcose

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chose

Misspelling Variants of "chose"

cchose6chhose6choes5chosse6chsoe5cohse5hcose5
Misspelling Variants of "chose"

Frequency rank: #158 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chose"?
"chose" is spelled C-H-O-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃoz\.
What does "chose" mean?
As a noun, "chose" means: Objet, idée ou abstraction quelconque, sans pouvoir, vouloir, ou devoir l’identifier ou la nommer. Note d’usage : La signification du mot chose se déduit par la manière dont on l’emploie dans la ph...
What words are commonly confused with "chose"?
"chose" is commonly confused with "coe", "code", "côte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chose"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chose" is \ʃoz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chose" come from?
"chose" 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.