chiers
\ʃje\
The verdict
“chiers” is uncommon French (frequency #81,877 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,877
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiers · chiers · French
chiers · rank #81,877 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,877
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Childéric
Nearest frequency peer: Childéric (+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 « chiers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chenin
chenin
18,127 corpus weight
- chicot
chicot
18,126 corpus weight
- chiers
chiers
18,124 corpus weight
- Childéric
Childéric
18,123 corpus weight
- choisiriez
choisiriez
18,121 corpus weight
- choisirons
choisirons
18,120 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chiers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chiers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chiers is uncommon French at frequency #81,877 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chiers in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chiers, spelled C-H-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chier.
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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