chose
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃoz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Objet, 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.
- 2Mot, idée, évènement ou énumération dont on parle.
- 3Concept, idée, ce qui a été, est, ou sera dit ou fait.
- 4Événements (voire des forces) qui dépassent l'entendement et que des mots ne sauraient retranscrire.
- 5Dans des expressions.
- 6Inanimé par opposition à la personne.
- 7Ce qui est réel, par opposition au nom ou au mot.
- 8Personne.
- 9Bien, possession, propriété.
- 10Tout ce qui est distinct des personnes et des actions et qui peut être de quelque usage humain.
- 11Parties génitales masculines.
- 12Mot-joker employé pour remplacer un mot qu’on se refuse à prononcer ou à écrire.
- 13Ce qui concerne l’acte sexuel.
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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"
Frequency rank: #158 in French
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