jeu du chat et de la souris

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for jeu du chat et de la souris is 27 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwe dy ʃa e de la su.ʁi\. 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: "Faire durer un jeu de traque ressemblant à la poursuite d’une souris par un chat.".

No misspelling variants are generated for jeu du chat et de la souris 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 jeu du chat et de la souris, spelled J-E-U- -D-U- -C-H-A-T- -E-T- -D-E- -L-A- -S-O-U-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.