chipmunks
\ʃip.munk\
The verdict
“chipmunks” is uncommon French (frequency #85,569 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,569
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chipmunk.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chipmunks · chipmunks · French
chipmunks · rank #85,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,569
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chinook
Nearest frequency peer: chinook (-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 « chipmunks »
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 « chipmunks » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chipmunks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃip.munk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chipmunks » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chipmunks is uncommon French at frequency #85,569 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃip.munk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chipmunk.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chipmunks in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chipmunks, spelled C-H-I-P-M-U-N-K-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chipmunk.
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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