châtier
\ʃɑ.tje\
The verdict
“châtier” is uncommon French (frequency #50,720 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,720
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infliger une peine destinée à corriger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatier · châtier · French
châtier · rank #50,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,720
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH choriste
Nearest frequency peer: choriste (-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 « châtier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chia
chia
49,284 corpus weight
- Chir
Chir
49,283 corpus weight
- choriste
choriste
49,282 corpus weight
- châtier
châtier
49,281 corpus weight
- Cilicie
Cilicie
49,280 corpus weight
- cinglant
cinglant
49,279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « châtier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | châtier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɑ.tje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « châtier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
châtier is uncommon French at frequency #50,720 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɑ.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for châtier, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is châtier, spelled C-H-Â-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Infliger une peine destinée à corriger.
- 2Donner, au cheval, des coups de cravache ou d’éperon, lorsqu’il refuse de faire ce qu’on exige de lui.
- 3Corriger la faute elle-même qu’on veut reprendre.
- 4Polir, rendre plus pur, plus correct, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how châtier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ordonna, de sa petite voix, que sa mère serait régente pour avoir soin de son éducation ; en d'autres termes, il commanda qu'elle lui commandât, l’éduquât, le châtiât.
Mais généralement l'envoi de quelques troupes met fin aux troubles en peu de temps. Elles envahissent le territoire de la tribu à châtier, pillent les douars, razzient les troupeaux, détruisent les cultures, font des prisonniers et coupent des têtes, […].
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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