chabichou
French, noun/ʃa.bi.ʃu/
chabichou is spelled C-H-A-B-I-C-H-O-U (9 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chabichou is a French masculine noun meaning “a kind of unpasteurized soft goat cheese from Poitou (north of Nouvelle-Aquitaine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fromage de chèvre du Poitou à pâte blanche et molle à croûte naturelle”.
What does chabichou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea kind of unpasteurized soft goat cheese from Poitou (north of Nouvelle-Aquitaine).
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fromage de chèvre du Poitou à pâte blanche et molle à croûte naturelle.
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 chabichou
- chabichous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chabichou?
- /ʃa.bi.ʃu/
- \ʃa.bi.ʃu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chabichou in French?
chabichou appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).