chatter
\ʃa.te\
The verdict
“chatter” is uncommon French (frequency #69,677 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,677
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire des petits chats, en parlant de la chatte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatter · chatter · French
chatter · rank #69,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,677
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chardons
Nearest frequency peer: chardons (-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 « chatter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chancre
chancre
30,328 corpus weight
- chansonniers
chansonniers
30,327 corpus weight
- chardonneret
chardonneret
30,326 corpus weight
- chardons
chardons
30,325 corpus weight
- chatter
chatter
30,324 corpus weight
- chikungunya
chikungunya
30,321 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chatter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chatter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃa.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chatter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chatter is uncommon French at frequency #69,677 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃa.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
chatter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chatter, spelled C-H-A-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire des petits chats, en parlant de la chatte.
- 2Avoir de la chatte (chance).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chatter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a réussi ses partiels sans réviser, il a chatté.
Synonyms
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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