chott
French, noun/ʃɔt/
chott is spelled C-H-O-T-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chott is a French masculine noun meaning “chott” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vaste dépression de terrain, en Algérie et en Tunisie, renfermant ou ayant renfermé un lac salé”.
What does chott mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechott
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vaste dépression de terrain, en Algérie et en Tunisie, renfermant ou ayant renfermé un lac salé.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chott
- chotts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chott?
- /ʃɔt/
- \ʃɔt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chott in French?
chott appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).