chichement
\ʃiʃ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“chichement” is uncommon French (frequency #78,261 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,261
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière chiche ; avec parcimonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chichement · chichement · French
chichement · rank #78,261 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,261
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chicos
Nearest frequency peer: chicos (+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 « chichement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chevaucheme…
chevauchements
21,743 corpus weight
- chevillard
chevillard
21,742 corpus weight
- chichement
chichement
21,740 corpus weight
- chicos
chicos
21,739 corpus weight
- chiffonniers
chiffonniers
21,738 corpus weight
- chiner
chiner
21,737 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chichement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chichement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ʃiʃ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chichement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chichement is uncommon French at frequency #78,261 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ʃiʃ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière chiche ; avec parcimonie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chichement in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 chichement, spelled C-H-I-C-H-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière chiche ; avec parcimonie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chichement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, dans la pratique, celles qu’on appelle des filles-mères sont chichement aidées, tenues en état de mépris et, le plus souvent, jetées à la rue, précipitées aux abîmes.
Il n’en distribua d’ailleurs que chichement, à regret.
Synonyms
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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