choron
The verdict
“choron” is uncommon French (frequency #82,787 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,787
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de musique médiéval qui ressemble à un tambourin à cordes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-choron · choron · French
choron · rank #82,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,787
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chokri
Nearest frequency peer: Chokri (-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 « choron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- characters
characters
17,217 corpus weight
- Chiasson
Chiasson
17,216 corpus weight
- Chokri
Chokri
17,215 corpus weight
- choron
choron
17,214 corpus weight
- ciboulot
ciboulot
17,213 corpus weight
- cinabre
cinabre
17,212 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « choron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | choron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « choron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
choron is uncommon French at frequency #82,787 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument de musique médiéval qui ressemble à un tambourin à cordes.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for choron, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is choron, spelled C-H-O-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Instrument de musique médiéval qui ressemble à un tambourin à cordes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how choron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tambourin, dont la caisse est allongée, eut pour ancêtre, au Moyen Age, le choron.
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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