chantante
\ʃɑ̃.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“chantante” is uncommon French (frequency #68,899 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,899
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de chantant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chantante · chantante · French
chantante · rank #68,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,899
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chandon
Nearest frequency peer: Chandon (-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 « chantante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chacuns
chacuns
31,105 corpus weight
- Chalais
Chalais
31,104 corpus weight
- Chandon
Chandon
31,103 corpus weight
- chantante
chantante
31,102 corpus weight
- chargeons
chargeons
31,101 corpus weight
- charlots
charlots
31,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chantante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chantante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chantante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chantante is uncommon French at frequency #68,899 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃɑ̃.tɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de chantant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chantante in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chantante, spelled C-H-A-N-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de chantant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chantante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[Béranger] a le goût très-prononcé de l’amitié buvante et chantante, de la sodalité.
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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