choke
\tʃɔk\
The verdict
“choke” is uncommon French (frequency #80,039 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,039
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étrangleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-choke · choke · French
choke · rank #80,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,039
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cheyennes
Nearest frequency peer: Cheyennes (-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 « choke »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chamanique
chamanique
19,965 corpus weight
- Chemnitz
Chemnitz
19,964 corpus weight
- Cheyennes
Cheyennes
19,963 corpus weight
- choke
choke
19,962 corpus weight
- choyée
choyée
19,961 corpus weight
- chromosomiq…
chromosomiques
19,960 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « choke » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | choke |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃɔk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « choke » en français
Rare enough to double-check
choke is uncommon French at frequency #80,039 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʃɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for choke, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is choke, spelled C-H-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1Étrangleur.
- 2Starter sur une automobile.
- 3Embout fixé à l'extrémité du canon d'un fusil, destiné à réduire le diamètre de ce canon et à améliorer ainsi le groupement des plombs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how choke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y'a quelque chose qui fonctionne pas. Ça, c'est quoi ? que je lui demande en lui pointant un truc noir avec la mention CHOKE. – Ça, c'est le CHOKE. – Je l'ai mis à ON. – Je sais lire. Ça fait quoi ? – Ça sert lorsqu'il fait froid que le monsieur a dit.
Les deux chasseurs s'approchèrent du journal : il était criblé de trous, comme une passoire. L'oncle Jules l'examina longuement, et parut satisfait. « Ils sont bien groupés. J'ai tiré le canon choke. À trente mètres, c'est parfait. »
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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