chahuter
\ʃa.y.te\
The verdict
“chahuter” is uncommon French (frequency #78,250 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,250
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se chamailler ; simuler une bagarre par jeu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chahuter · chahuter · French
chahuter · rank #78,250 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,250
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Challe
Nearest frequency peer: Challe (+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 « chahuter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cessionnaire
cessionnaire
21,755 corpus weight
- CFM
CFM
21,754 corpus weight
- chabbat
chabbat
21,753 corpus weight
- chahuter
chahuter
21,751 corpus weight
- Challe
Challe
21,750 corpus weight
- chamailleri…
chamailleries
21,749 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chahuter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chahuter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃa.y.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chahuter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chahuter is uncommon French at frequency #78,250 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃa.y.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for chahuter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chahuter, spelled C-H-A-H-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se chamailler ; simuler une bagarre par jeu.
- 2Faire du bruit (du chahut) pour perturber une personne, une activité etc.
- 3Danser le chahut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chahuter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur trois rangées de tables, les joueurs étaient alignés en bon ordre, certains avec la femme et la marmaille qui chahutait dans les travées.
Le ministre s’est fait chahuter par l’opposition.
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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