chicos
\ʃi.kɔs\
The verdict
“chicos” is uncommon French (frequency #78,262 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,262
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chic.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chicos · chicos · French
chicos · rank #78,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,262
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chichement
Nearest frequency peer: chichement (-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 « chicos »
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 « chicos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chicos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃi.kɔs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chicos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chicos is uncommon French at frequency #78,262 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃi.kɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chic.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chicos in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 chicos, spelled C-H-I-C-O-S.
Definition
- 1Chic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chicos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
- Carrément chicos, l’endroit où tu crèches, lui dit-il en démarrant.
Et oui, Chatelet, ou plutôt le centre de Paris, à priori c’est chicos.
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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