tchate
French, noun
tchate is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of chat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of tchater. With an accent, tchaté is a different word: “past participle of tchater”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Clavardage, conversation virtuelle, par écran interposé, sur internet”.
What does tchate mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of chat
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of tchater
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Clavardage, conversation virtuelle, par écran interposé, sur internet. 2. Site qui permet ce mode de communication.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tchate
- tchates plural
- tchatée feminine
- tchatés masculine plural
- tchatées feminine plural
- chat
- tchat
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tchate in French?
tchate appears about once in every 78 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).