chiche-face
\ʃiʃ.fas\
The verdict
“chiche-face” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avare au physique chétif, au visage blême.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiche-face · chiche-face · French
chiche-face · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiche-face |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃiʃ.fas\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chiche-face » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chiche-face is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃiʃ.fas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avare au physique chétif, au visage blême.".
chiche-face has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chiche-face, spelled C-H-I-C-H-E---F-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Avare au physique chétif, au visage blême.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chiche-face appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Orfanik était de taille moyenne, maigre, chétif, étique, avec une de ces figures pâles que, dans l’ancien langage, on qualifiait de « chiches-faces ».
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.