cheptel
French, noun/ʃɛp.tɛl/
cheptel is a French masculine noun meaning “livestock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble des troupeaux, hardes, du bétail d’une propriété rurale, d’un pays”.
What does cheptel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelivestock
- 2
masculineherd; crowd (of people)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble des troupeaux, hardes, du bétail d’une propriété rurale, d’un pays. 2. Groupe humain. 3. Bail de bétail, ou contrat par lequel l’une des parties donne à l’autre des bestiaux pour les garder, les nourrir et les soigner, sous les conditions convenues entre elles.
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 cheptel
- cheptels plural
- chepteil
- chetel
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cheptel?
- /ʃɛp.tɛl/
- /ʃə.tɛl/
- \ʃə.tɛl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cheptel in French?
cheptel appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).