chim
\ʃˈĩ\
The verdict
“chim” is uncommon French (frequency #74,653 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,653
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chinois, Chinoise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chim · chim · French
chim · rank #74,653 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,653
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chauvins
Nearest frequency peer: chauvins (-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 « chim »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charmés
charmés
25,351 corpus weight
- chatoyantes
chatoyantes
25,350 corpus weight
- chauvins
chauvins
25,349 corpus weight
- chim
chim
25,348 corpus weight
- chipset
chipset
25,347 corpus weight
- chutney
chutney
25,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chim » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃˈĩ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chim » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chim is uncommon French at frequency #74,653 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃˈĩ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chinois, Chinoise.".
chim doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chim, spelled C-H-I-M.
Definition
- 1Chinois, Chinoise.
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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