chamaille
\ʃa.maj\
The verdict
“chamaille” is uncommon French (frequency #95,680 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,680
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chamaillerie, querelle où l'on se chamaille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chamaille · chamaille · French
chamaille · rank #95,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,680
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CESS
Nearest frequency peer: CESS (-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 « chamaille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- centrafrica…
centrafricaines
4,325 corpus weight
- CESS
CESS
4,322 corpus weight
- chamaille
chamaille
4,321 corpus weight
- champel
champel
4,320 corpus weight
- chapin
chapin
4,319 corpus weight
- charades
charades
4,318 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chamaille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chamaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.maj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chamaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chamaille is uncommon French at frequency #95,680 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.maj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chamaillerie, querelle où l'on se chamaille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chamaille in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chamaille, spelled C-H-A-M-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Chamaillerie, querelle où l'on se chamaille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chamaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l'intérieur de la Section, en revanche, on vivait « en famille ». Bien sûr cela n'empêchait ni les jalousies ni les chamailles, mais contre l'extérieur le service faisait aussitôt bloc.
C’étaient des enfants de manouvriers. Ami, ennemi, nourriture et poison, le vin était mêlé sans cesse aux pensées, aux effusions et aux chamailles de leurs familles.
Synonyms
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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