cor de chasse
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
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cor de chasse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument à vent, en cuivre ou en laiton, encore appelé "trompe", destiné à avertir et à ameuter les chiens lors des chasses à courre. Pronounced \kɔʁ də ʃas\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cor de chasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ də ʃas\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cor de chasse is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁ də ʃas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cor de chasse in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 cor de chasse, spelled C-O-R- -D-E- -C-H-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument à vent, en cuivre ou en laiton, encore appelé "trompe", destiné à avertir et à ameuter les chiens lors des chasses à courre.
- 2Meuble représentant l’instrument de musique du même nom dans les armoiries. Quand l’embouchure est d'un autre émail, il est dit enguiché ou embouché. Lorsqu’il est muni d'un sangle éventuellement d'un autre émail, il est dit lié. Sa représentation est souvent similaire à celle du cor, ce qui peut être source de confusion entre les deux instruments. À rapprocher de cor, cornet, grêlier, huchet, olifant et trompe.
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