chiller
\tʃi.le\
The verdict
“chiller” is uncommon French (frequency #80,987 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,987
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se relaxer, se détendre, se reposer, prendre du bon temps, ne rien faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiller · chiller · French
chiller · rank #80,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,987
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiffonnier
Nearest frequency peer: chiffonnier (-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 « chiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cheminant
cheminant
19,017 corpus weight
- Chesnais
Chesnais
19,016 corpus weight
- chiffonnier
chiffonnier
19,015 corpus weight
- chiller
chiller
19,014 corpus weight
- chirurgical…
chirurgicalement
19,013 corpus weight
- chlorures
chlorures
19,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʃi.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chiller is uncommon French at frequency #80,987 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʃi.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
chiller doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chiller, spelled C-H-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se relaxer, se détendre, se reposer, prendre du bon temps, ne rien faire.
- 2Se mettre au calme pour faire redescendre le stress. Déstresser, se calmer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aménagée en contrebas de la gare, cette terrasse géante en plein air est le nouveau lieu phare de l’été pour venir « chiller » entre amis.
« Chiller v.i. Être oisif, prendre un peu de repos après avoir glandé des heures au bureau. Attention, on ne dira jamais d’un ouvrier ou d’un paysan qu’il “chille”, d’une part car il parle le français, d’autre part car il bosse vraiment, lui. » .
This word in other languages
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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