cholo
\tʃo.lo\
The verdict
“cholo” is uncommon French (frequency #90,543 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,543
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Métis, né de parents européens et amérindiens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cholo · cholo · French
cholo · rank #90,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,543
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH choisiras
Nearest frequency peer: choisiras (-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 « cholo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cheyrou
Cheyrou
9,462 corpus weight
- chiffrant
chiffrant
9,461 corpus weight
- Chisholm
Chisholm
9,460 corpus weight
- choisiras
choisiras
9,459 corpus weight
- cholo
cholo
9,458 corpus weight
- chosen
chosen
9,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cholo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cholo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃo.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cholo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cholo is uncommon French at frequency #90,543 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʃo.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Métis, né de parents européens et amérindiens.".
cholo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cholo, spelled C-H-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Métis, né de parents européens et amérindiens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cholo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’est rien moins que le vaillant Ramon, cholo de nation et matador de son métier.
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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