chevrotine
\ʃə.vʁɔ.tin\
The verdict
“chevrotine” is uncommon French (frequency #75,503 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,503
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gros plomb dont on se sert pour tirer le chevreuil et autres gibiers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chevrotine · chevrotine · French
chevrotine · rank #75,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,503
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH chevauchées
Nearest frequency peer: chevauchées (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “chevrotine”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Chaumette
Chaumette
24,502 corpus weight
- Chaville
Chaville
24,501 corpus weight
- chevauchées
chevauchées
24,499 corpus weight
- chevrotine
chevrotine
24,498 corpus weight
- chon
chon
24,497 corpus weight
- Châteaulin
Châteaulin
24,495 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “chevrotine” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chevrotine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.vʁɔ.tin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chevrotine” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chevrotine is uncommon French at frequency #75,503 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃə.vʁɔ.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for chevrotine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 chevrotine, spelled C-H-E-V-R-O-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Gros plomb dont on se sert pour tirer le chevreuil et autres gibiers.
- 2Chevrotement.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chevrotine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.