Chignon
German, noun/ʃɪnˈjɔ̃ː/
Chignon is spelled C-H-I-G-N-O-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 76 million words in written German, the 543,077th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chignon is a German masculine noun meaning “chignon (hair worn at the nape of the neck)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zu einer Art Knoten angeordnetes Haar am Hinterkopf, das mit Hilfsmitteln wie Haarnadeln, Haarnetz oder…”.
What does Chignon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechignon (hair worn at the nape of the neck)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. zu einer Art Knoten angeordnetes Haar am Hinterkopf, das mit Hilfsmitteln wie Haarnadeln, Haarnetz oder Ähnlichem in Form gehalten wird
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Chignon
- Chignons genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Chignon?
- /ʃɪnˈjɔ̃ː/
- [ʃɪnˈjɔ̃ː]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Chignon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Chignon in German?
Chignon appears about once in every 76 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).