chest
\t͡ʃɛst\
The verdict
“chest” is uncommon French (frequency #63,622 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,622
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poitrine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chest · chest · French
chest · rank #63,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,622
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cherchèrent
Nearest frequency peer: cherchèrent (-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 « chest »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- checking
checking
36,382 corpus weight
- cherchèrent
cherchèrent
36,380 corpus weight
- chest
chest
36,379 corpus weight
- choquées
choquées
36,378 corpus weight
- chorée
chorée
36,377 corpus weight
- choupette
choupette
36,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chest » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \t͡ʃɛst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chest » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chest is uncommon French at frequency #63,622 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \t͡ʃɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for chest in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 chest, spelled C-H-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Poitrine.
- 2Coffre.
- 3Caisse.
- 4Commode.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The ball hit him right in his chest.
What’s in that huge chest?
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).