chocolatier
\ʃɔ.kɔ.la.tje\
The verdict
“chocolatier” is uncommon French (frequency #50,116 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,116
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait et vend du chocolat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chocolatier · chocolatier · French
chocolatier · rank #50,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,116
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chenil
Nearest frequency peer: chenil (-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 « chocolatier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chalutier
chalutier
49,888 corpus weight
- charnu
charnu
49,887 corpus weight
- chenil
chenil
49,886 corpus weight
- chocolatier
chocolatier
49,885 corpus weight
- chop
chop
49,884 corpus weight
- chrysalide
chrysalide
49,882 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chocolatier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chocolatier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔ.kɔ.la.tje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chocolatier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chocolatier is uncommon French at frequency #50,116 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɔ.kɔ.la.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui fait et vend du chocolat.".
chocolatier has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chocolatier, spelled C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait et vend du chocolat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chocolatier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les planteurs commencent à s’intéresser au devenir de leur production et les chocolatiers se penchent sur la préparation de leur matière première.
On doit au chocolatier rétais quelques spécialités comme le Fort Boyard, le dôme de sel, la charentaise (fourrée au praliné gianduja) ou encore la patate de l’île de Ré.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).