chevillard
\ʃə.vi.jaʁ\
The verdict
“chevillard” is uncommon French (frequency #78,259 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,259
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grossiste en viande de boucherie, commissionnaire vendant la viande aux détaillants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chevillard · chevillard · French
chevillard · rank #78,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,259
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevauchements
Nearest frequency peer: chevauchements (-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 « chevillard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cheer
cheer
21,745 corpus weight
- Chemie
Chemie
21,744 corpus weight
- chevaucheme…
chevauchements
21,743 corpus weight
- chevillard
chevillard
21,742 corpus weight
- chichement
chichement
21,740 corpus weight
- chicos
chicos
21,739 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chevillard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chevillard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.vi.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chevillard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chevillard is uncommon French at frequency #78,259 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃə.vi.jaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grossiste en viande de boucherie, commissionnaire vendant la viande aux détaillants.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chevillard in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chevillard, spelled C-H-E-V-I-L-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Grossiste en viande de boucherie, commissionnaire vendant la viande aux détaillants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chevillard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les bouchers grossistes ou chevillards : ils s’occupent de l’achat du bétail, de sa transformation et de la commercialisation de la viande en gros.
Figurez-vous que ce midi, Claudius Cornillon — celui qui fait le chevillard au Bessat — a déjeuné chez nous.
Synonyms
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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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