chicot
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#81,875
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chicot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui reste hors de terre d’un arbre cassé par le vent ou coupé. Pronounced \ʃi.ko\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chicot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.ko\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chicot is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃi.ko\. Corpus data places it at rank #81,875 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chicot in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chicot, spelled C-H-I-C-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui reste hors de terre d’un arbre cassé par le vent ou coupé.
- 2Meuble représentant un tronc d’arbre écoté dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté sans racines ni faîte avec des couples de branches coupées disposées de part et d’autre du tronc de manière symétrique. Il est représenté en pal sinon, on doit préciser sa position. À rapprocher de écot.
- 3Petit morceau de bois rompu.
- 4Blessure du pied, faite par un chicot.
- 5Morceau qui reste d’une dent rompue.
- 6Ce qui reste à la base des anciens murs d’un édifice.
- 7En géomorphologie, type descriptif de formes d'érosion de certaines roches notamment granitoïdes ou carbonatées.
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Frequency rank: #81,875 in French
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