chalut
\ʃa.ly\
The verdict
“chalut” is uncommon French (frequency #67,368 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,368
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Filet de forme conique que l’on attache à l’arrière d’un bateau et qui sert à pêcher à la traîne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chalut · chalut · French
chalut · rank #67,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,368
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chanceuses
Nearest frequency peer: chanceuses (+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 « chalut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cazaux
Cazaux
32,636 corpus weight
- cera
cera
32,635 corpus weight
- chalut
chalut
32,633 corpus weight
- chanceuses
chanceuses
32,632 corpus weight
- charretier
charretier
32,631 corpus weight
- charrière
charrière
32,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chalut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chalut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ly\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chalut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chalut is uncommon French at frequency #67,368 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ly\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Filet de forme conique que l’on attache à l’arrière d’un bateau et qui sert à pêcher à la traîne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chalut 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chalut, spelled C-H-A-L-U-T.
Definition
- 1Filet de forme conique que l’on attache à l’arrière d’un bateau et qui sert à pêcher à la traîne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chalut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bateau s'enfonce dans l'obscurité. Le projecteur fixé au-dessus du chalut éclaire les eaux vertes et écumantes qu'accompagne le cortège des mouettes.
Dragues, chaluts de fond, sennes démersales… Ces techniques de pêche, qui débarquent à elles trois 36 % des volumes des poissons pêchés par les bateaux français, ont un point commun : l’utilisation d’engins traînants, déposés sur les fonds marins et reliés par câbles à un ou plusieurs bateaux qui les tractent sur de longues distances.
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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