chômeuse
\ʃo.møz\
The verdict
“chômeuse” is uncommon French (frequency #76,426 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,426
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme n’ayant pas de travail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chomeuse · chômeuse · French
chômeuse · rank #76,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,426
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cinétiques
Nearest frequency peer: cinétiques (+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 « chômeuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chignons
chignons
23,579 corpus weight
- chuchotement
chuchotement
23,577 corpus weight
- chômeuse
chômeuse
23,575 corpus weight
- cinétiques
cinétiques
23,574 corpus weight
- clairette
clairette
23,572 corpus weight
- clam
clam
23,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chômeuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chômeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃo.møz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chômeuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chômeuse is uncommon French at frequency #76,426 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃo.møz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme n’ayant pas de travail.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chômeuse in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chômeuse, spelled C-H-Ô-M-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme n’ayant pas de travail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chômeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une jeune chômeuse de longue durée raconte sa vie au quotidien entre humiliations et taux espoirs, découragement et résignation, rebuffades et mesquinerie mais également les plaisirs et les joies.
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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