šanson

noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

šanson is aFrenchnoun. It means: Type de musique que nous appelons « chanson française » quand elle est chantée par des chansonniers français, rendue populaire par des artistes comme Maurice Chevalier, Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf, ...

Key facts for šanson
PropertyValue
Headwordšanson
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

šanson is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for šanson is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. 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: "Type de musique que nous appelons « chanson française » quand elle est chantée par des chansonniers français, rendue populaire par des artistes comme Maurice Chevalier, Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf, ...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for šanson 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 šanson, spelled Š-A-N-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Type de musique que nous appelons « chanson française » quand elle est chantée par des chansonniers français, rendue populaire par des artistes comme Maurice Chevalier, Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel qui ont inspiré un style musical qui a inspiré les musiciens tchécoslovaques.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "šanson"?
"šanson" is spelled Š-A-N-S-O-N.
What does "šanson" mean?
As a noun, "šanson" means: Type de musique que nous appelons « chanson française » quand elle est chantée par des chansonniers français, rendue populaire par des artistes comme Maurice Chevalier, Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf, ...
What language does "šanson" come from?
"šanson" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter Š in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.