chiendent
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#76,421
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chiendent is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante adventice de plusieurs genres de la famille des Poacées (anciennement Graminées), dont les puissants rhizomes assurent le maintien et la diffusion. Pronounced \ʃjɛ̃.dɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiendent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃjɛ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chiendent is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃjɛ̃.dɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #76,421 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chiendent 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 chiendent, spelled C-H-I-E-N-D-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante adventice de plusieurs genres de la famille des Poacées (anciennement Graminées), dont les puissants rhizomes assurent le maintien et la diffusion.
- 2Rhizome de cette plante servant, entre autres choses, à faire des brosses. (Note : pour cet usage on utilise en particulier les rhizomes de Bothriochloa ischaemum ou chiendent à balais.)
- 3Toute plante fort enracinée et difficile à éradiquer.
- 4Point difficile, cas embarrassant.
- 5Parasite, gêneur.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #76,421 in French
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