chouannerie
\ʃwan.ʁi\
The verdict
“chouannerie” is uncommon French (frequency #93,594 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,594
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insurrection, guerre des chouans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chouannerie · chouannerie · French
chouannerie · rank #93,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,594
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chlorés
Nearest frequency peer: chlorés (-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 « chouannerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chasseneuil
Chasseneuil
6,412 corpus weight
- chiné
chiné
6,410 corpus weight
- chlorés
chlorés
6,408 corpus weight
- chouannerie
chouannerie
6,407 corpus weight
- chérissons
chérissons
6,406 corpus weight
- circonstanc…
circonstancielle
6,405 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chouannerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chouannerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃwan.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chouannerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chouannerie is uncommon French at frequency #93,594 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃwan.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chouannerie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chouannerie, spelled C-H-O-U-A-N-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Insurrection, guerre des chouans.
- 2Lutte contre-révolutionnaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chouannerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ici que la Vendée commence à se présenter avec ses accidens de terrain, qui nous furent si fatals pendant la guerre de la chouannerie.
De temps en temps un coin bleu marine s’ouvrait à l’horizon, comme une échappée de ciel plus sombre et plus mouvant ; mais le hasard de ces routes tortueuses qui font rêver d’embuscades et de chouannerie refermait vite la vision entrevue.
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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