chatterton
\ʃa.tɛʁ.tɔn\
The verdict
“chatterton” is uncommon French (frequency #58,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,493
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ruban isolant et adhésif en vinyle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatterton · chatterton · French
chatterton · rank #58,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,493
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chanterai
Nearest frequency peer: chanterai (-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 « chatterton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- changeraient
changeraient
41,510 corpus weight
- chanterai
chanterai
41,509 corpus weight
- chatterton
chatterton
41,508 corpus weight
- chaudrons
chaudrons
41,507 corpus weight
- cheb
cheb
41,506 corpus weight
- chibre
chibre
41,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chatterton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chatterton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.tɛʁ.tɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chatterton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chatterton is uncommon French at frequency #58,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.tɛʁ.tɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for chatterton in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 chatterton, spelled C-H-A-T-T-E-R-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ruban isolant et adhésif en vinyle.
- 2Ruban de toile plastifiée adhésive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chatterton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La doublure de ma manche gauche est un petit peu déchirée… Je n'ai plus de chatterton… Tant pis, je vais mettre un clou.
… ses lunettes de documentaliste dont les verres sont fêlés et la monture rafistolée au chatterton.
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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