chignons
\ʃi.ɲɔ̃\
The verdict
“chignons” is uncommon French (frequency #76,422 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,422
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chignon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chignons · chignons · French
chignons · rank #76,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,422
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiendent
Nearest frequency peer: chiendent (-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 « chignons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chasselas
chasselas
23,584 corpus weight
- Chevilly
Chevilly
23,581 corpus weight
- chiendent
chiendent
23,580 corpus weight
- chignons
chignons
23,579 corpus weight
- chuchotement
chuchotement
23,577 corpus weight
- chômeuse
chômeuse
23,575 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chignons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chignons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chignons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chignons is uncommon French at frequency #76,422 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃi.ɲɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chignon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chignons, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chignons, spelled C-H-I-G-N-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chignon.
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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