chou frisé
\ʃu fʁi.ze\
The verdict
“chou frisé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de chou cultivée, consommé comme légume ou utilisé comme plante ornementale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chou-frise · chou frisé · French
chou frisé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chou frisé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃu fʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
chou frisé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃu fʁi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de chou cultivée, consommé comme légume ou utilisé comme plante ornementale.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chou frisé, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chou frisé, spelled C-H-O-U- -F-R-I-S-É.
Definition
- 1Variété de chou cultivée, consommé comme légume ou utilisé comme plante ornementale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chou frisé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour dîner, il y a du rosbif, de la purée de pommes de terre et du chou frisé, une combinaison typiquement américaine.
Sur le plan botanique, le chou fait partie de la famille des Brassicaceae , avec le brocoli, les choux de Bruxelles, le chou cavalier et le chou frisé.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.