chivas
\ˈt͡ʃi.βas\
The verdict
“chivas” is uncommon French (frequency #53,853 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,853
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier (tú) du présent de l’indicatif de chivar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chivas · chivas · French
chivas · rank #53,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,853
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chica
Nearest frequency peer: chica (-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 « chivas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chapdelaine
Chapdelaine
46,151 corpus weight
- charogne
charogne
46,150 corpus weight
- chica
chica
46,149 corpus weight
- chivas
chivas
46,148 corpus weight
- chutant
chutant
46,147 corpus weight
- citrate
citrate
46,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chivas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chivas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈt͡ʃi.βas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chivas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chivas is uncommon French at frequency #53,853 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈt͡ʃi.βas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier (tú) du présent de l’indicatif de chivar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chivas in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chivas, spelled C-H-I-V-A-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier (tú) du présent de l’indicatif de chivar.
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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