chipotage
French, noun/ʃi.pɔ.taʒ/
chipotage is spelled C-H-I-P-O-T-A-G-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chipotage is a French masculine noun meaning “nitpicking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de chipoter”.
What does chipotage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenitpicking
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de chipoter.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chipotage
- chipotages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chipotage?
- /ʃi.pɔ.taʒ/
- \ʃi.pɔ.taʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chipotage in French?
chipotage appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).