chiche
\ʃiʃ\
The verdict
“chiche” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,367. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,367
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui répugne à dépenser ce qu’il faudrait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiche · chiche · French
chiche · rank #27,367 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,367
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevreuil
Nearest frequency peer: chevreuil (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chiche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CFC
CFC
72,637 corpus weight
- chevalerie
chevalerie
72,636 corpus weight
- chevreuil
chevreuil
72,635 corpus weight
- chiche
chiche
72,634 corpus weight
- chignon
chignon
72,633 corpus weight
- chip
chip
72,632 corpus weight
What this shows « chiche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃiʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chiche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chiche (IPA \ʃiʃ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,367 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chiche, with forms such as "cchiche", "chcihe", and "chhiche". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chie", "CICE", "coche", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 chiche, spelled C-H-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Qui répugne à dépenser ce qu’il faudrait.
- 2Qui est chétif, mesquin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chiche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ah ! ils ne sont pas chiches de bonnes paroles. Veux-tu des promesses, en voilà !
Demander un crédit au ministère pour organiser un contrôle sérieux ? Vous savez comme ces gens-là sont chiches.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchiche
- chcihe
- chhiche
- chicche
- chiceh
- chichhe
- chihce
- cihche
- hciche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chiche - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "chiche", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).