chaoui
French, noun/ʃa.wi/
chaoui is spelled C-H-A-O-U-I (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,044th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chaoui is a French masculine noun meaning “Berber (language)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “un des dialectes de la famille des langues berbères (tamazight), parlée en Algérie par les Chaouis habitant…”.
What does chaoui mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineBerber (language)
adjective
- 1
Berber (relating to people who speak the Berber language)
noun
- 1
masculineraccoon, coon
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. un des dialectes de la famille des langues berbères (tamazight), parlée en Algérie par les Chaouis habitant les Aurès et régions attenantes.
noun: 1. Raton laveur.
adjective: 1. Relatif aux Chaouis et à leur langue.
noun: 1. Membre des Chaouis, un groupe ethnique des Berbères d'Algérie.
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 chaoui
- chaouie feminine
- chaouis masculine plural
- chaouies feminine plural
- chaouia
- chawi
- Chaouis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chaoui?
- /ʃa.wi/
- /ʃa.we/
- \ʃa.wi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chaoui
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chaoui in French?
chaoui appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).