châtie
\ʃɑ.ti\
The verdict
“châtie” is uncommon French (frequency #54,475 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,475
- 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 châtier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatie · châtie · French
châtie · rank #54,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,475
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chéreau
Nearest frequency peer: Chéreau (+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 « châtie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chromatogra…
chromatographie
45,529 corpus weight
- chrysanthèm…
chrysanthèmes
45,528 corpus weight
- châtie
châtie
45,526 corpus weight
- Chéreau
Chéreau
45,525 corpus weight
- circo
circo
45,524 corpus weight
- classifier
classifier
45,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « châtie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | châtie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɑ.ti\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « châtie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
châtie is uncommon French at frequency #54,475 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɑ.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for châtie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is châtie, spelled C-H-Â-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe châtier.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe châtier.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe châtier.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe châtier.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent du verbe châtier.
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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