chicots
\ʃi.ko\
The verdict
“chicots” is uncommon French (frequency #84,634 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,634
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chicot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chicots · chicots · French
chicots · rank #84,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,634
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chevreul
Nearest frequency peer: Chevreul (-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 « chicots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chenet
chenet
15,370 corpus weight
- chevaleresq…
chevaleresques
15,369 corpus weight
- Chevreul
Chevreul
15,368 corpus weight
- chicots
chicots
15,367 corpus weight
- chromatine
chromatine
15,366 corpus weight
- chrysalides
chrysalides
15,365 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chicots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chicots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.ko\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chicots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chicots is uncommon French at frequency #84,634 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃi.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chicot.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chicots, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 chicots, spelled C-H-I-C-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chicot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chicots appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les gardes veillent encore et enjoignent aux facteurs de veiller à ce que dans un temps de neige, les ouvriers dégarnissent bien les souches, pour ne pas faire une mauvaise coupe, et à ce qu’ils aient également l’attention de bien débuissonner, et de ne pas laisser de vieux chicots ni estocs.
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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