chauviniste
\ʃo.vi.nist\
The verdict
“chauviniste” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport au chauvinisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chauviniste · chauviniste · French
chauviniste · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chauviniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃo.vi.nist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
chauviniste is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃo.vi.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport au chauvinisme.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chauviniste, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 chauviniste, spelled C-H-A-U-V-I-N-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport au chauvinisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chauviniste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Américains qui n'ont pas encore visité l'Europe, seront bien forcés, après une promenade dans les sections étrangères [de l'exposition de Philadelphie], de revenir de leur idée chauviniste, à savoir que le Yankee est un être universel, supérieur à tous les autres.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.