hautbois de chasse
^((h aspiré))\o.bwɑ də ʃas\
The verdict
“hautbois 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hautbois en fa, dont la tessiture est donc celle du cor anglais ; utilisé par le compositeur Jean-Sébastien Bach, il est courbe et recouvert de cuir, avec un pavillon métallique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hautbois de chasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\o.bwɑ də ʃas\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hautbois de chasse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hautbois de chasse is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\o.bwɑ də ʃas\. 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: "Hautbois en fa, dont la tessiture est donc celle du cor anglais ; utilisé par le compositeur Jean-Sébastien Bach, il est courbe et recouvert de cuir, avec un pavillon métallique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hautbois 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 hautbois de chasse, spelled H-A-U-T-B-O-I-S- -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
- 1Hautbois en fa, dont la tessiture est donc celle du cor anglais ; utilisé par le compositeur Jean-Sébastien Bach, il est courbe et recouvert de cuir, avec un pavillon métallique.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is H-A-U-T-B-O-I-S- -D-E- -C-H-A-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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