chauffait
\ʃɔ.fɛ\
The verdict
“chauffait” is uncommon French (frequency #59,885 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,885
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chauffer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chauffait · chauffait · French
chauffait · rank #59,885 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,885
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chauffants
Nearest frequency peer: chauffants (+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 « chauffait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chandails
chandails
40,120 corpus weight
- chasuble
chasuble
40,118 corpus weight
- chauffait
chauffait
40,116 corpus weight
- chauffants
chauffants
40,115 corpus weight
- checkpoint
checkpoint
40,114 corpus weight
- cinque
cinque
40,113 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chauffait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chauffait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɔ.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chauffait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chauffait is uncommon French at frequency #59,885 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɔ.fɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chauffer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chauffait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chauffait, spelled C-H-A-U-F-F-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chauffer.
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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