chancir
\ʃɑ̃.siʁ\
The verdict
“chancir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moisir (surtout en parlant de choses comestibles).
Corpus desk
Index FR-chancir · chancir · French
chancir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chancir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.siʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chancir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chancir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɑ̃.siʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Moisir (surtout en parlant de choses comestibles).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chancir in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 chancir, spelled C-H-A-N-C-I-R.
Definition
- 1Moisir (surtout en parlant de choses comestibles).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chancir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], les hommes d’affaire à chapeaux dont les rues adjacentes portaient encore les noms s’étaient pendus ou étaient morts dans leurs clubs décadents dominant des rivières à saumon, le romantique avenir de la possession du continent par la machine s’était mis à chancir.
Ces confitures commencent à chancir.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.