chiffonne
\ʃi.fɔn\
The verdict
“chiffonne” is uncommon French (frequency #61,399 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,399
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grêle et inutile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiffonne · chiffonne · French
chiffonne · rank #61,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,399
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chianti
Nearest frequency peer: chianti (-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 « chiffonne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chauffez
chauffez
38,605 corpus weight
- chianti
chianti
38,603 corpus weight
- chiffonne
chiffonne
38,602 corpus weight
- chorégraphi…
chorégraphiques
38,601 corpus weight
- Christos
Christos
38,600 corpus weight
- chérit
chérit
38,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chiffonne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiffonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃi.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chiffonne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chiffonne is uncommon French at frequency #61,399 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃi.fɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grêle et inutile.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chiffonne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 chiffonne, spelled C-H-I-F-F-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Grêle et inutile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chiffonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une branche chiffonne.
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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