chahut
French, noun/ʃa.y/
chahut is spelled C-H-A-H-U-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 62,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chahut is a French masculine noun meaning “horseplay, racket, the act of messing around” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Danse excentrique, proche du cancan, à la mode au XIXᵉ siècle dans les bals publics”.
What does chahut mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehorseplay, racket, the act of messing around
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Danse excentrique, proche du cancan, à la mode au XIXᵉ siècle dans les bals publics. 2. Désordre, tumulte d’écoliers. 3. Perturbation volontaire d’un discours, d’un cours, etc. 4. Perturbation émotionnelle.
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 chahut
- chahuts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chahut?
- /ʃa.y/
- \ʃa.y\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chahut
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chahut in French?
chahut appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).