chaillou
\ʃa.ju\
The verdict
“chaillou” is uncommon French (frequency #99,982 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,982
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de chaillot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaillou · chaillou · French
chaillou · rank #99,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,982
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CGL
Nearest frequency peer: CGL (-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 « chaillou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CGL
CGL
20 corpus weight
- chaillou
chaillou
19 corpus weight
- chambardeme…
chambardement
18 corpus weight
- chansonnett…
chansonnettes
16 corpus weight
- chapardeurs
chapardeurs
14 corpus weight
- chargèrent
chargèrent
13 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chaillou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaillou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ju\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chaillou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chaillou is uncommon French at frequency #99,982 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ju\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de chaillot.".
chaillou doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chaillou, spelled C-H-A-I-L-L-O-U.
Definition
- 1Variante de chaillot.
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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