chiper
\ʃi.pe\
The verdict
“chiper” is uncommon French (frequency #66,584 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,584
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dérober un objet de peu de valeur. Prendre ce qui est à autrui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiper · chiper · French
chiper · rank #66,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,584
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaînette
Nearest frequency peer: chaînette (-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 « chiper »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chassaient
chassaient
33,420 corpus weight
- chaînette
chaînette
33,418 corpus weight
- chiper
chiper
33,417 corpus weight
- chipie
chipie
33,416 corpus weight
- chlordécone
chlordécone
33,415 corpus weight
- Chongqing
Chongqing
33,414 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chiper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃi.pe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chiper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chiper is uncommon French at frequency #66,584 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃi.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
chiper has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 chiper, spelled C-H-I-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dérober un objet de peu de valeur. Prendre ce qui est à autrui.
- 2Faire tomber amoureux ; énamourer.
- 3Donner le chipage aux peaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chiper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une paysanne oubliait-elle son seau au bord du puits, il chipait le seau.
Sur la boîte qu’elle me tend, je lis : Blanc gras des artistes, rachel. — Mais, c’est du blanc de scène, ça ! Où l’avez vous chipé ? — Je ne l’ai pas chipé. Je l’ai acheté parce que j’en avais besoin. Il doit être un peu rance, depuis le temps.
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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