chatouilleux
\ʃa.tu.jø\
The verdict
“chatouilleux” is uncommon French (frequency #73,824 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,824
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est sensible au chatouillement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatouilleux · chatouilleux · French
chatouilleux · rank #73,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,824
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chasseresse
Nearest frequency peer: chasseresse (-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 « chatouilleux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charmeuse
charmeuse
26,180 corpus weight
- charnelles
charnelles
26,179 corpus weight
- chasseresse
chasseresse
26,178 corpus weight
- chatouilleux
chatouilleux
26,177 corpus weight
- cheek
cheek
26,176 corpus weight
- cheerleaders
cheerleaders
26,175 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chatouilleux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chatouilleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃa.tu.jø\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #73,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chatouilleux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chatouilleux is uncommon French at frequency #73,824 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃa.tu.jø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for chatouilleux in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chatouilleux, spelled C-H-A-T-O-U-I-L-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est sensible au chatouillement.
- 2Qualifie un cheval qui est sensible à la cravache, à l’éperon.
- 3Qui s’offense aisément ; qui se fâche pour peu de chose.
- 4Qui exige des ménagements
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chatouilleux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plante des pieds est une partie très chatouilleuse.
Je suis très chatouilleux.
Synonyms
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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