chicha
\ʃi.ʃa\
The verdict
“chicha” is uncommon French (frequency #52,565 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,565
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pipe à eau très répandue dans les pays arabes et récemment dans les pays occidentaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chicha · chicha · French
chicha · rank #52,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,565
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chas
Nearest frequency peer: chas (-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 « chicha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chablais
chablais
47,439 corpus weight
- champenoise
champenoise
47,438 corpus weight
- chas
chas
47,437 corpus weight
- chicha
chicha
47,436 corpus weight
- châtelaine
châtelaine
47,434 corpus weight
- chérubins
chérubins
47,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chicha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chicha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chicha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chicha is uncommon French at frequency #52,565 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃi.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for chicha in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chicha, spelled C-H-I-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Pipe à eau très répandue dans les pays arabes et récemment dans les pays occidentaux.
- 2Bar à chicha.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chicha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les saveurs sucrées qui émanaient de la fumée des chichas se mêlaient à celles du thé à la menthe, contribuant à créer une bulle olfactive harmonieuse et enveloppante.
Quoi qu’il en soit, la chicha est une pipe orientale à long tuyau flexible, dans laquelle la fumée de tabac passe par un vase rempli d’eau qui se parfume avant d’arriver à la bouche puis dans les poumons.
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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