chinchilla
\ʃɛ̃.ʃi.la\
The verdict
“chinchilla” is uncommon French (frequency #72,176 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,176
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel de trois espèces de petits rongeurs du genre Chinchilla de la famille des Chinchillidae, il comprend deux espèces sauvages devenues rares, vivant en Amérique du Sud, et une forme domestiq...
Corpus desk
Index FR-chinchilla · chinchilla · French
chinchilla · rank #72,176 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,176
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cherki
Nearest frequency peer: Cherki (-3 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 « chinchilla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chefferies
chefferies
27,831 corpus weight
- Cherki
Cherki
27,828 corpus weight
- chinchilla
chinchilla
27,825 corpus weight
- chronic
chronic
27,822 corpus weight
- churros
churros
27,821 corpus weight
- chus
chus
27,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chinchilla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chinchilla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ̃.ʃi.la\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chinchilla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chinchilla is uncommon French at frequency #72,176 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛ̃.ʃi.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chinchilla, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chinchilla, spelled C-H-I-N-C-H-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel de trois espèces de petits rongeurs du genre Chinchilla de la famille des Chinchillidae, il comprend deux espèces sauvages devenues rares, vivant en Amérique du Sud, et une forme domestiquée. Il est élevé et chassé pour sa fourrure.
- 2Fourrure de cet animal.
- 3Couleur de cet animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chinchilla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était le chinchilla, petit rongeur doux et craintif, riche en fourrure, qui tient le milieu entre le lièvre et la gerboise.
La veuve avait une robe verte garnie de chinchilla, qui lui allait comme une tache de cambouis sur le voile d'une mariée
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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