Chongqing
\tʃɔŋ.tʃiŋ\
The verdict
“Chongqing” is uncommon French (frequency #66,587 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,587
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et municipalité de la Chine, anciennement une des principales villes du Sichuan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chongqing · Chongqing · French
Chongqing · rank #66,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,587
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chlordécone
Nearest frequency peer: chlordécone (-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 « Chongqing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chiper
chiper
33,417 corpus weight
- chipie
chipie
33,416 corpus weight
- chlordécone
chlordécone
33,415 corpus weight
- Chongqing
Chongqing
33,414 corpus weight
- choupi
choupi
33,413 corpus weight
- chouïa
chouïa
33,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chongqing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chongqing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tʃɔŋ.tʃiŋ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chongqing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chongqing is uncommon French at frequency #66,587 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tʃɔŋ.tʃiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville et municipalité de la Chine, anciennement une des principales villes du Sichuan.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Chongqing in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Chongqing, spelled C-H-O-N-G-Q-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Ville et municipalité de la Chine, anciennement une des principales villes du Sichuan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chongqing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wang Lijun, chef de la police locale de Chongqing, aurait révélé aux Américains, lors de sa fuite au consulat américain de Chengdu, que Neil Heywood ne serait pas mort d’une crise cardiaque mais aurait été empoisonné.
Pékin, Shanghai et Chongqing ont également renforcé les restrictions.
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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