Chollet
\ʃɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“Chollet” is uncommon French (frequency #68,136 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,136
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne orthographe de Cholet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chollet · Chollet · French
Chollet · rank #68,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,136
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH choquait
Nearest frequency peer: choquait (+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 « Chollet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- checklist
checklist
31,868 corpus weight
- Chedid
Chedid
31,867 corpus weight
- Chollet
Chollet
31,865 corpus weight
- choquait
choquait
31,864 corpus weight
- chrysanthème
chrysanthème
31,863 corpus weight
- civet
civet
31,862 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chollet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chollet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chollet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chollet is uncommon French at frequency #68,136 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃɔ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne orthographe de Cholet.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Chollet in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Chollet, spelled C-H-O-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Ancienne orthographe de Cholet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chollet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus de trente ans après la petite ville de Chollet ne contenait encore que cent quatre-vingt-dix-huit feux , c'est-à-dire une population de 8 à 900 âmes ; mais depuis lors une habile enchanteresse, l'industrie, s'est fixée en ce lieu, et maintenant on y compte 8,500 habitants.
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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