chamboule
\ʃɑ̃.bul\
The verdict
“chamboule” is uncommon French (frequency #54,467 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,467
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chambouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chamboule · chamboule · French
chamboule · rank #54,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,467
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH centuries
Nearest frequency peer: centuries (-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 « chamboule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CDA
CDA
45,538 corpus weight
- centuries
centuries
45,535 corpus weight
- chamboule
chamboule
45,534 corpus weight
- chanta
chanta
45,533 corpus weight
- chart
chart
45,532 corpus weight
- chassa
chassa
45,531 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chamboule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chamboule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.bul\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chamboule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chamboule is uncommon French at frequency #54,467 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɑ̃.bul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chamboule, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chamboule, spelled C-H-A-M-B-O-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chambouler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chambouler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe chambouler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe chambouler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe chambouler.
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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