chiffon
[ʃi.fɔ̃]
The verdict
“chiffon” is uncommon German (frequency #85,075 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,075
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fetzen, Hader, Lappen, Lumpen
Corpus desk
Index DE-chiffon · chiffon · German
chiffon · rank #85,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,075
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH chop
Nearest frequency peer: chop (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „chiffon“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Cellisten
Cellisten
14,932 corpus weight
- chaotischer
chaotischer
14,929 corpus weight
- chiffon
chiffon
14,926 corpus weight
- chop
chop
14,925 corpus weight
- Chorraum
Chorraum
14,924 corpus weight
- Codein
Codein
14,921 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „chiffon“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiffon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃi.fɔ̃] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „chiffon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
chiffon is uncommon German at frequency #85,075 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃi.fɔ̃]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fetzen, Hader, Lappen, Lumpen".
chiffon has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is chiffon, spelled C-H-I-F-F-O-N.
Definition
- 1Fetzen, Hader, Lappen, Lumpen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chiffon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est parvenu à enlever la tache avec un chiffon légèrement humide.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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