Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chalet

/ˈʃæleɪ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English

Syllables: chalet
IPA: /ˈʃæleɪ/

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.

noun

A recreational lodge or small house within the grounds of a resort or country club dedicated to the uniformed services, used for events, staycations and other social gatherings.

Example Sentences

"Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid."
"“I know that Perdita spends the offseason at her chalet in Gstaad, and that her mansion would be empty. And the perfect place to teach you all a valuable lesson about the importance of being nice to people who maybe aren't part of your core group but who have done a lot of nice things for you and yet you still treat them like shit.”"

Etymology

Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: chalet, çhalè

Inflected Forms

chalets (plural) châlet (alternative)

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce chalet?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃæleɪ/.
What does chalet mean?: An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
Where does chalet come from?: It is traced to French.

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