Chios
\kjɔs\
The verdict
“Chios” is uncommon French (frequency #87,456 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,456
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île de Grèce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chios · Chios · French
Chios · rank #87,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,456
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH choisissais
Nearest frequency peer: choisissais (+2 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 « Chios »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charisma
charisma
12,550 corpus weight
- chassera
chassera
12,548 corpus weight
- Chios
Chios
12,545 corpus weight
- choisissais
choisissais
12,543 corpus weight
- chronologies
chronologies
12,541 corpus weight
- chronométrée
chronométrée
12,540 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chios » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chios |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kjɔs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chios » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chios is uncommon French at frequency #87,456 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kjɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Île de Grèce.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Chios in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chios, spelled C-H-I-O-S.
Definition
- 1Île de Grèce.
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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