chibi
\ʃi.bi\
The verdict
“chibi” is uncommon French (frequency #88,455 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,455
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage enfantin avec des caractéristiques physiques exagérées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chibi · chibi · French
chibi · rank #88,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,455
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chercheure
Nearest frequency peer: chercheure (-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 « chibi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chalk
chalk
11,551 corpus weight
- chaînons
chaînons
11,550 corpus weight
- cheminent
cheminent
11,548 corpus weight
- chercheure
chercheure
11,547 corpus weight
- chibi
chibi
11,546 corpus weight
- chloroquine
chloroquine
11,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chibi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chibi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.bi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chibi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chibi is uncommon French at frequency #88,455 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃi.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for chibi in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chibi, spelled C-H-I-B-I.
Definition
- 1Personnage enfantin avec des caractéristiques physiques exagérées.
- 2Style de dessin dans lequel les personnages sont dessinés de petite taille et mignons, adorables.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chibi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment dessiner un chibi Transformer un personnage en chibi Rapport tête/corps de divers chibi Façon de bouger des chibi
L’avantage des chibis, en dehors du fait qu’ils sont super mignons et rigolos, est qu’ils sont faciles à dessiner, car leurs traits sont simplifiés !
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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