chauffez
\ʃɔ.fe\
The verdict
“chauffez” is uncommon French (frequency #61,396 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,396
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe chauffer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chauffez · chauffez · French
chauffez · rank #61,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,396
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chari
Nearest frequency peer: chari (-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 « chauffez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chancelleri…
chancelleries
38,608 corpus weight
- changeais
changeais
38,607 corpus weight
- chari
chari
38,606 corpus weight
- chauffez
chauffez
38,605 corpus weight
- chianti
chianti
38,603 corpus weight
- chiffonne
chiffonne
38,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chauffez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chauffez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɔ.fe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chauffez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chauffez is uncommon French at frequency #61,396 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɔ.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for chauffez in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 chauffez, spelled C-H-A-U-F-F-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe chauffer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif du verbe chauffer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chauffez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chauffez la quasi-totalité de l’huile d'olive dans une grande poêle à frire, à feu vif.
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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