chocottes
\ʃɔ.kɔt\
The verdict
“chocottes” is uncommon French (frequency #95,696 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,696
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utilisé dans l’expression familière avoir les chocottes : avoir peur, et filer les chocottes, effrayer → voir chocotte
Corpus desk
Index FR-chocottes · chocottes · French
chocottes · rank #95,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,696
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chitine
Nearest frequency peer: chitine (-2 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 « chocottes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chicks
chicks
4,309 corpus weight
- chinoiseries
chinoiseries
4,308 corpus weight
- chitine
chitine
4,307 corpus weight
- chocottes
chocottes
4,305 corpus weight
- chéquiers
chéquiers
4,303 corpus weight
- Cimbres
Cimbres
4,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chocottes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chocottes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔ.kɔt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chocottes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chocottes is uncommon French at frequency #95,696 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɔ.kɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Utilisé dans l’expression familière avoir les chocottes : avoir peur, et filer les chocottes, effrayer → voir chocotte".
chocottes has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chocottes, spelled C-H-O-C-O-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Utilisé dans l’expression familière avoir les chocottes : avoir peur, et filer les chocottes, effrayer → voir chocotte
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chocottes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ça s’ voit bien qu’elle est moche elle ressemble à papa Elle filerait les chocottes à Dracula
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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