chouchou

\ʃu.ʃu\

/\ʃu.ʃu\/ noun

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The verdict

“chouchou” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,779
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne préférée, ou à qui toutes les attentions sont portées (généralement en parlant d’un enfant).

Corpus desk

Index FR-chouchou · chouchou · French

chouchou · rank #19,779 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,779
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chariots

Nearest frequency peer: chariots (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chouchou »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chouchou » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chouchou vs coucou
75% similar
chouchou vs chouchous
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chouchou
PropertyValue
Headwordchouchou
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃu.ʃu\
Letters8
Frequency rank#19,779
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chouchou »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.chouchouse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « chariots » (#19,778), « combustibles » (#19,782), « captures » (#19,775). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chouchou » est au #19,779. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around chouchou (IPA \ʃu.ʃu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,779 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne préférée, ou à qui toutes les attentions sont portées (généralement en parlant d’un enfant).".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chouchou, with forms such as "cchouchou", "chhouchou", and "chocuhou". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "coucou", "chouchous", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chouchou, spelled C-H-O-U-C-H-O-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne préférée, ou à qui toutes les attentions sont portées (généralement en parlant d’un enfant).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chouchou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les élèves de sa section le jalousaient, le traitaient de chouchou, lui montraient idiotement les faibles avantages d’une telle science dans l’avenir.
  2. Il a ses chouchoux, c’est les scouts et les enfants de chœur. Mais tous les curés c’est bien pareil.

Synonyms

enfant gâtéfavoripréféré

Antonyms

mal-aimé

This word in other languages

blue-eyed boy(English)preferido(Español)Liebling(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cchouchou
  • chhouchou
  • chocuhou
  • choucchou
  • chouchhou
  • chouchuo
  • choucohu
  • chouhcou
  • chuochou
  • cohuchou
  • hcouchou

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chouchou - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

cchouchou1chhouchou1chocuhou2choucchou1chouchhou1chouchuo2choucohu2chouhcou2
Edit distance from "chouchou"

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 "chouchou"?
"chouchou" is spelled C-H-O-U-C-H-O-U. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃu.ʃu\.
What does "chouchou" mean?
As a noun, "chouchou" means: Personne préférée, ou à qui toutes les attentions sont portées (généralement en parlant d’un enfant).
What words are commonly confused with "chouchou"?
"chouchou" is commonly confused with "coucou", "chouchous". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chouchou"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chouchou" is \ʃu.ʃu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chouchou" come from?
"chouchou" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chouchou", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chariots#19,778captures#19,775convoque#19,793blizzard#19,760

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

boulettes11 variantsBobigny11 variantsdevrons11 variantsarrêtant11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list