chop

noun

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“chop” is an uncommon French word, ranked #50,117 in French word frequency and used as a noun.

#50,117
frequency rank, French
4
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Côtelette.

Key facts for chop
PropertyValue
Headwordchop
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#50,117
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “chop” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). chop lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chop is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #50,117 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Côtelette.".

chop doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 chop, spelled C-H-O-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    Côtelette.

Synonyms

côtelette

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chop"?
"chop" is spelled C-H-O-P.
What does "chop" mean?
As a noun, "chop" means: Côtelette.
What language does "chop" come from?
"chop" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “chop”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-H-O-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list