chauvinist
"chauvinist" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chauvinist” is uncommon English (frequency #61,362 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,362
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pertaining to chauvinism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chauvinist · chauvinist · English
chauvinist · rank #61,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,362
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chatfield
Nearest frequency peer: Chatfield (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “chauvinist”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cep
cep
38,647 corpus weight
- Chabad
Chabad
38,644 corpus weight
- Chaffee
Chaffee
38,643 corpus weight
- Chatfield
Chatfield
38,640 corpus weight
- chauvinist
chauvinist
38,639 corpus weight
- Choudhury
Choudhury
38,636 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chauvinist” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chauvinist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chauvinist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chauvinist is uncommon English at frequency #61,362 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for chauvinist in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: See chauvinism. The correct English form is chauvinist, spelled C-H-A-U-V-I-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Pertaining to chauvinism.
- 2Chauvinistic; excessively patriotic or heavily biased.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chauvinist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Today's young women seem to be outdoing the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear, applauding the "pornification" of other women […]
Etymology
See chauvinism.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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