chaloir
\ʃa.lwaʁ\
The verdict
“chaloir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Importer, dans le sens d’être important ; faire attention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaloir · chaloir · French
chaloir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaloir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃa.lwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chaloir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chaloir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃa.lwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Importer, dans le sens d’être important ; faire attention.".
chaloir has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chaloir, spelled C-H-A-L-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Importer, dans le sens d’être important ; faire attention.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chaloir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’écris ces mémoires en pleine vie, ainsi que du fond du tombeau. Je ne veux ni flatter, ni dénigrer. Peu me chaut de plaire ou de déplaire.
Je vivais pour mes enfants, ne faisant aucune visite et me soustrayant aux réunions en nombre où il m'eût été possible, chacun s'exprimant alors comme il lui chaut, de saisir les divers aspects de mon mari en tant qu'homme mêlé à d'autres hommes, […].
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.