chantonner
\ʃɑ̃.tɔ.ne\
The verdict
“chantonner” is uncommon French (frequency #98,873 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,873
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chanter à mi-voix, de manière décontractée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chantonner · chantonner · French
chantonner · rank #98,873 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,873
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charmeurs
Nearest frequency peer: charmeurs (+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 « chantonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cesseraient
cesseraient
1,131 corpus weight
- chalutage
chalutage
1,130 corpus weight
- chantonner
chantonner
1,128 corpus weight
- charmeurs
charmeurs
1,127 corpus weight
- chassons
chassons
1,126 corpus weight
- Chatbots
Chatbots
1,125 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chantonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chantonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.tɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chantonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chantonner is uncommon French at frequency #98,873 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɑ̃.tɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chanter à mi-voix, de manière décontractée.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chantonner, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chantonner, spelled C-H-A-N-T-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Chanter à mi-voix, de manière décontractée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chantonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fallait une bien brillante affaire pour qu’Anthelme Féraud chantonnât aussi fort et aussi faux. De fait, il avait, dans la journée, enlevé une commission de trois cents pièces à ses plus redoutables concurrents, […].
Je me souviens qu’en revenant de la gare je fis se retourner une dame, parce que je chantonnais, en marchant, un passage de la Messe des morts.
Synonyms
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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