chômer
\ʃo.me\
The verdict
“chômer” is uncommon French (frequency #86,541 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,541
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suspendre son travail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chomer · chômer · French
chômer · rank #86,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,541
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chouquettes
Nearest frequency peer: chouquettes (-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 « chômer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cherchai
cherchai
13,464 corpus weight
- chevalets
chevalets
13,463 corpus weight
- chouquettes
chouquettes
13,462 corpus weight
- chômer
chômer
13,460 corpus weight
- cigarettiers
cigarettiers
13,458 corpus weight
- clairvoyante
clairvoyante
13,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chômer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chômer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃo.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chômer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chômer is uncommon French at frequency #86,541 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃo.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for chômer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chômer, spelled C-H-Ô-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Suspendre son travail.
- 2Suspendre son travail.
- 3Manquer de.
- 4Ne pas travailler durant une certaine période.
- 5Ne pas pâturer, en parlant de bêtes au pré.
- 6Être inactif, végéter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chômer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chommons, c’eſt un métier qu’il veut nous faire apprendre.
[…] puis les travailleurs, ayant chômé pendant ce jour sacré du « Christmas », se retrouvèrent tous réunis devant un splendide festin, dans lequel figurait deux gigantesques puddings.
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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