chôme
\ʃom\
The verdict
“chôme” is uncommon French (frequency #68,917 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,917
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emplacement où se reposent les bêtes d’un troupeau pendant les heures chaudes de la journée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chome · chôme · French
chôme · rank #68,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,917
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chérifien
Nearest frequency peer: chérifien (-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 « chôme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- choquette
choquette
31,087 corpus weight
- christianis…
christianisation
31,086 corpus weight
- chérifien
chérifien
31,085 corpus weight
- chôme
chôme
31,084 corpus weight
- Ciara
Ciara
31,083 corpus weight
- cinnamon
cinnamon
31,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chôme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chôme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃom\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chôme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chôme is uncommon French at frequency #68,917 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Emplacement où se reposent les bêtes d’un troupeau pendant les heures chaudes de la journée.".
chôme has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chôme, spelled C-H-Ô-M-E.
Definition
- 1Emplacement où se reposent les bêtes d’un troupeau pendant les heures chaudes de la journée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chôme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Poursuivre par le sentier à flanc en longeant une zone de chôme des moutons (reposoir pendant l’estive) jusqu’au col de Seysse (1744 m), destination de G2.
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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