chiffonnade
French, noun/ʃi.fɔ.nad/
chiffonnade is spelled C-H-I-F-F-O-N-N-A-D-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chiffonnade is a French masculine noun meaning “a shredded food (especially ham)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Potage fait à partir d’herbes”.
What does chiffonnade mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea shredded food (especially ham)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Potage fait à partir d’herbes. 2. Façon de préparer ou de présenter un aliment, taillé en lanières très fines.
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 chiffonnade
- chiffonnades plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chiffonnade?
- /ʃi.fɔ.nad/
- \ʃi.fɔ.nad\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chiffonnade in French?
chiffonnade appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).