chaoui
\ʃa.wi\
The verdict
“chaoui” is uncommon French (frequency #65,015 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,015
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue berbère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaoui · chaoui · French
chaoui · rank #65,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,015
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CGR
Nearest frequency peer: CGR (-2 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 « chaoui »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CCM
CCM
34,990 corpus weight
- centauri
centauri
34,989 corpus weight
- CGR
CGR
34,988 corpus weight
- chaoui
chaoui
34,986 corpus weight
- chavire
chavire
34,984 corpus weight
- Chazelle
Chazelle
34,983 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chaoui » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaoui |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.wi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chaoui » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chaoui is uncommon French at frequency #65,015 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.wi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue berbère.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chaoui, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chaoui, spelled C-H-A-O-U-I.
Definition
- 1Langue berbère.
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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