chaos
French, noun/ka.o/
chaos is spelled C-H-A-O-S (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chaos is a French masculine noun meaning “chaos” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Confusion générale des éléments avant leur séparation et leur arrangement pour former le monde”.
What does chaos mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechaos
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Confusion générale des éléments avant leur séparation et leur arrangement pour former le monde. 2. État d’enchevêtrement, d’amalgame d’objets nombreux et hétéroclites 3. Ce qui est ou semble inorganisé, désordonné, confus, parfois incohérent ou obscur. 4. Désordre social, politique ou économique; état d'agitation et d'anarchie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chaos
- cahos
- caos
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chaos?
- /ka.o/
- \ka.o\
- [ka.o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chaos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chaos in French?
chaos appears 13 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).