chatoiement
French, noun/ʃa.twa.mɑ̃/
chatoiement is spelled C-H-A-T-O-I-E-M-E-N-T (11 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 142,934th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chatoiement is a French masculine noun meaning “shimmer, shimmering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Effet produit sur la vue par une surface chatoyante”.
What does chatoiement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshimmer, shimmering
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Effet produit sur la vue par une surface chatoyante. 2. Impression visuelle produite par la fluctuation rapide de tavelures provoquées par les variations aléatoires de l’indice de réfraction de l’atmosphère traversée.
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 chatoiement
- chatoiements plural
- chatoîment obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chatoiement?
- /ʃa.twa.mɑ̃/
- \ʃa.twa.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chatoiement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chatoiement in French?
chatoiement appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).