chatouilles
\ʃa.tuj\
The verdict
“chatouilles” is uncommon French (frequency #68,130 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,130
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chatouille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatouilles · chatouilles · French
chatouilles · rank #68,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,130
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charo
Nearest frequency peer: charo (-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 « chatouilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Charlet
Charlet
31,874 corpus weight
- charms
charms
31,873 corpus weight
- charo
charo
31,872 corpus weight
- chatouilles
chatouilles
31,871 corpus weight
- chausses
chausses
31,870 corpus weight
- checklist
checklist
31,868 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chatouilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chatouilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.tuj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chatouilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chatouilles is uncommon French at frequency #68,130 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.tuj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chatouille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chatouilles, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chatouilles, spelled C-H-A-T-O-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chatouille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chatouilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu la sens pas, la peur, assise sur ton cou et qui te fait des chatouilles le long du dos ?
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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