chamade
\ʃa.mad\
The verdict
“chamade” is uncommon French (frequency #55,807 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,807
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Signal que les assiégés donnaient avec la trompette ou le tambour, quelquefois en arborant un drapeau blanc, pour avertir qu’ils voulaient parlementer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chamade · chamade · French
chamade · rank #55,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,807
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cervelet
Nearest frequency peer: cervelet (-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 « chamade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cendrée
cendrée
44,197 corpus weight
- cerro
cerro
44,196 corpus weight
- cervelet
cervelet
44,195 corpus weight
- chamade
chamade
44,194 corpus weight
- chamboulée
chamboulée
44,193 corpus weight
- charcutier
charcutier
44,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chamade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chamade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.mad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chamade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chamade is uncommon French at frequency #55,807 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.mad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Signal que les assiégés donnaient avec la trompette ou le tambour, quelquefois en arborant un drapeau blanc, pour avertir qu’ils voulaient parlementer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chamade, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chamade, spelled C-H-A-M-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Signal que les assiégés donnaient avec la trompette ou le tambour, quelquefois en arborant un drapeau blanc, pour avertir qu’ils voulaient parlementer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chamade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Battre la chamade. Sonner la chamade.
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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