chiez
\ʃje\
The verdict
“chiez” is uncommon French (frequency #77,346 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,346
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe chier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiez · chiez · French
chiez · rank #77,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,346
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chestnut
Nearest frequency peer: chestnut (-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 « chiez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chamrousse
Chamrousse
22,660 corpus weight
- chastes
chastes
22,659 corpus weight
- chauffeuse
chauffeuse
22,658 corpus weight
- chestnut
chestnut
22,656 corpus weight
- chiez
chiez
22,655 corpus weight
- choquerait
choquerait
22,653 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chiez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃje\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chiez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chiez is uncommon French at frequency #77,346 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
chiez has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chiez, spelled C-H-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe chier.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif du verbe 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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