chantonne
\ʃɑ̃.tɔn\
The verdict
“chantonne” is uncommon French (frequency #75,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,493
- 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 chantonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chantonne · chantonne · French
chantonne · rank #75,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,493
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chancelant
Nearest frequency peer: chancelant (-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 « chantonne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cevipof
Cevipof
24,512 corpus weight
- chancelant
chancelant
24,509 corpus weight
- chantonne
chantonne
24,508 corpus weight
- chaperons
chaperons
24,507 corpus weight
- charbonnièr…
charbonnières
24,506 corpus weight
- charcuter
charcuter
24,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chantonne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chantonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.tɔn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chantonne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chantonne is uncommon French at frequency #75,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɑ̃.tɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chantonne, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chantonne, spelled C-H-A-N-T-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chantonner.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chantonner.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe chantonner.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe chantonner.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe chantonner.
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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