chinoiserie
\ʃi.nwa.zʁi\
The verdict
“chinoiserie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit objet d’art, d’ameublement ou de curiosité d’origine ou de style chinois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chinoiserie · chinoiserie · French
chinoiserie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chinoiserie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.nwa.zʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
chinoiserie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃi.nwa.zʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for chinoiserie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 chinoiserie, spelled C-H-I-N-O-I-S-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Petit objet d’art, d’ameublement ou de curiosité d’origine ou de style chinois.
- 2Petit objet de peu d’intérêt et de peu de valeur, ou tel qu'il aurait potentiellement pu être fabriqué en Chine sans grand contrôle de sa qualité.
- 3Formalités minutieuses et complications puériles et inutiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chinoiserie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chacun rebâtit sa maison, vend ses vieux meubles, refond son argenterie, ou la troque pour la porcelaine de Sèvres qui ne vaut ni le vieux Saxe ni les chinoiseries.
J’aime les vieux objets. J’aime encore davantage les noms dont l’usage courant les a dotés —babioles, cossins, chinoiseries—, une espièglerie de ton qui, au-delà de l’étymologie, semble enseigner l’autodérision, montrer comment rire de son âge.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.