Chibougamau
\ʃi.bu.ɡa.mo\
The verdict
“Chibougamau” is uncommon French (frequency #64,315 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,315
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la région du Nord-du-Québec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chibougamau · Chibougamau · French
Chibougamau · rank #64,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,315
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charters
Nearest frequency peer: charters (-2 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 « Chibougamau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chappe
chappe
35,690 corpus weight
- Charnay
Charnay
35,689 corpus weight
- charters
charters
35,688 corpus weight
- Chibougamau
Chibougamau
35,686 corpus weight
- Chostakovit…
Chostakovitch
35,684 corpus weight
- chouchouter
chouchouter
35,683 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chibougamau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chibougamau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.bu.ɡa.mo\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chibougamau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chibougamau is uncommon French at frequency #64,315 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃi.bu.ɡa.mo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la région du Nord-du-Québec.".
Chibougamau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Chibougamau, spelled C-H-I-B-O-U-G-A-M-A-U.
Definition
- 1Ville canadienne du Québec située dans la région du Nord-du-Québec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chibougamau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les secteurs de Chapais et de Chibougamau, dans le Nord-du-Québec, vont passer en alerte maximale à compter du lundi, à minuit et une minute.
Un motoneigiste a passé plusieurs heures sur la glace du lac David, au sud-ouest de Chibougamau, après être tombé dans l’eau glaciale quand son appareil a brisé la glace, samedi après-midi.
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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