chamailler
\ʃa.mɑ.je\
The verdict
“chamailler” is uncommon French (frequency #62,134 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,134
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contester, disputer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chamailler · chamailler · French
chamailler · rank #62,134 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,134
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaldéens
Nearest frequency peer: chaldéens (-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 « chamailler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chahut
chahut
37,869 corpus weight
- chaldéens
chaldéens
37,868 corpus weight
- chamailler
chamailler
37,867 corpus weight
- changing
changing
37,866 corpus weight
- chauffages
chauffages
37,865 corpus weight
- chirurgienne
chirurgienne
37,864 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chamailler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chamailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃa.mɑ.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chamailler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chamailler is uncommon French at frequency #62,134 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃa.mɑ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chamailler, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chamailler, spelled C-H-A-M-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Contester, disputer.
- 2Se battre pêle-mêle, se disputer avec beaucoup de bruit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chamailler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Mascarille, en tout cas, l’espoir où je me fonde, Nous irons bien armés ; et si quelqu’un nous gronde, Nous nous chamaillerons. — Oui, voilà justement Ce que votre valet ne prétend nullement : Moi, chamailler, bon Dieu ! Suis-je un Roland, mon maître, Ou quelque Ferragu ? C’est fort mal me connoître.
— Mon cher, vous n’allez pas me chamailler pour des mots que j’emploie, s’écria-t-il en haussant le ton. Je ne joue jamais sur les mots, mais je me sers de ceux qui me sont commodes.
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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