chahut
\ʃa.y\
The verdict
“chahut” is uncommon French (frequency #62,132 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,132
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse excentrique, proche du cancan, à la mode au XIXᵉ siècle dans les bals publics.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chahut · chahut · French
chahut · rank #62,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,132
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaldéens
Nearest frequency peer: chaldéens (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chahut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- censitaire
censitaire
37,872 corpus weight
- cervelles
cervelles
37,871 corpus weight
- chahut
chahut
37,869 corpus weight
- chaldéens
chaldéens
37,868 corpus weight
- chamailler
chamailler
37,867 corpus weight
- changing
changing
37,866 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chahut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chahut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.y\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chahut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chahut is uncommon French at frequency #62,132 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.y\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for chahut in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chahut, spelled C-H-A-H-U-T.
Definition
- 1Danse excentrique, proche du cancan, à la mode au XIXᵉ siècle dans les bals publics.
- 2Désordre, tumulte d’écoliers.
- 3Perturbation volontaire d’un discours, d’un cours, etc.
- 4Perturbation émotionnelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chahut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une douzaine d’hommes et de femmes déguisés, à moitié ivres, se livraient avec emportement à cette danse folle et obscène appelée le chahut.
Après avoir fait cercle avec des gens autour de trois quatre filles qui dansaient le chahut non sans grâce ni sans impudeur, nous étions allés nous asseoir à une petite table, tout près du petit salon qu’on trouve à l’entrée.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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