écluse de chasse
\e.klyz də ʃas\
The verdict
“écluse de chasse” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Écluse destinée à rejeter l’eau vers la mer à travers un barrage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écluse de chasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.klyz də ʃas\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écluse de chasse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for écluse de chasse is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.klyz 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 misspelling variants are generated for écluse de chasse 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 écluse de chasse, spelled É-C-L-U-S-E- -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
- 1Écluse destinée à rejeter l’eau vers la mer à travers un barrage.
- 2Construction destinée à retenir l’eau nécessaire pour chasser, par son courant, la vase ou le sable qui obstruent un port, un canal.
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- The one correct French spelling is É-C-L-U-S-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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