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chicote

French, noun/ʃi.kɔt/

chicote is spelled C-H-I-C-O-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chicote is a French feminine noun meaning “alternative form of chicotte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fouet”.

What does chicote mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininealternative form of chicotte

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Fouet.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of chicote

  • chicotes plural
  • chicotte

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce chicote?

  • /ʃi.kɔt/
  • \ʃi.kɔt\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is chicote in French?

chicote appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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