chica
\ʃi.ka\
The verdict
“chica” is uncommon French (frequency #53,852 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,852
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fille, jeune fille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chica · chica · French
chica · rank #53,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,852
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charogne
Nearest frequency peer: charogne (-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 « chica »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chanteloup
Chanteloup
46,152 corpus weight
- Chapdelaine
Chapdelaine
46,151 corpus weight
- charogne
charogne
46,150 corpus weight
- chica
chica
46,149 corpus weight
- chivas
chivas
46,148 corpus weight
- chutant
chutant
46,147 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chica » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chica |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chica » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chica is uncommon French at frequency #53,852 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃi.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
chica has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chica, spelled C-H-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Fille, jeune fille.
- 2Sorte de breuvage usité au Chili, que les femmes de l’Araucanie préparent en mâchant du maïs (Radau, Revue des Deux-Mondes, 15 novembre 1876, page 433).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chica appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Vous parlerez français, n’est-ce pas ? Il faut absolument que la chica apprenne à parler sans fautes. »
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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