chinook
\ʃi.nuk\
The verdict
“chinook” is uncommon French (frequency #85,568 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,568
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au chinook, la langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chinook · chinook · French
chinook · rank #85,568 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,568
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevelus
Nearest frequency peer: chevelus (-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 « chinook »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chevelures
chevelures
14,435 corpus weight
- chevelus
chevelus
14,434 corpus weight
- chinook
chinook
14,433 corpus weight
- chipmunks
chipmunks
14,432 corpus weight
- CHRU
CHRU
14,430 corpus weight
- châtellenies
châtellenies
14,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chinook » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chinook |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃi.nuk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chinook » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chinook is uncommon French at frequency #85,568 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃi.nuk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for chinook in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chinook, spelled C-H-I-N-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1Relatif au chinook, la langue.
- 2Relatif aux Chinooks, le peuple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chinook appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans sa célèbre La Pensée sauvage, l’anthropologue français Claude Lévi-Strauss signale que la langue chinook, parlée par une tribu d’Amérindiens du Nord-Ouest, est extrêmement riche en termes et concepts abstraits. Ainsi, au lieu de dire : « Le méchant homme a tué le pauvre enfant », l’autochtone de par là-bas dira : « La méchanceté de l’homme a tué la p…
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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