chatoyante
\ʃa.twa.jɑ̃t\
The verdict
“chatoyante” is uncommon French (frequency #96,743 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,743
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de chatoyant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatoyante · chatoyante · French
chatoyante · rank #96,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,743
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charriot
Nearest frequency peer: charriot (-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 « chatoyante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chamanes
chamanes
3,262 corpus weight
- Chaource
Chaource
3,261 corpus weight
- charriot
charriot
3,259 corpus weight
- chatoyante
chatoyante
3,258 corpus weight
- checks
checks
3,256 corpus weight
- chergui
chergui
3,255 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chatoyante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chatoyante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃa.twa.jɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chatoyante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chatoyante is uncommon French at frequency #96,743 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃa.twa.jɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de chatoyant.".
chatoyante doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chatoyante, spelled C-H-A-T-O-Y-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de chatoyant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chatoyante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je regarde les fleurs, le gazon vert, la maison blanche, la rivière chatoyante au soleil et je ressens une béatitude infinie.
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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