chipie
\ʃi.pi\
The verdict
“chipie” is uncommon French (frequency #66,585 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,585
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme ou fille acariâtre, dédaigneuse et désagréable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chipie · chipie · French
chipie · rank #66,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,585
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiper
Nearest frequency peer: chiper (-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 « chipie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- choupi
choupi
33,413 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chipie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chipie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.pi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chipie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chipie is uncommon French at frequency #66,585 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃi.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
chipie has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chipie, spelled C-H-I-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Femme ou fille acariâtre, dédaigneuse et désagréable.
- 2Femme ou fille de caractère, et encline à jouer des tours.
- 3Se dit affectueusement d’une très jeune fille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chipie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Je crois avoir entendu que le docteur parlait de cette vieille chipie de Blanche de Castille, si j’ose m’exprimer ainsi.
J’avoue qu’elle a d’assez beaux yeux, mais c’est une chipie, Turner, une chipie, aussi aigre et malfaisante que son mari.
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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