chouchouter
French, verb/ʃu.ʃu.te/
chouchouter is spelled C-H-O-U-C-H-O-U-T-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 64,346th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chouchouter is a French verb meaning “to spoil, pamper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Traiter avec complaisance”.
What does chouchouter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spoil, pamper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Traiter avec complaisance.
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 chouchouter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chouchoutant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chouchouté participle past
- chouchoute first-person indicative present
- chouchoutes indicative present second-person
- chouchoutons first-person indicative plural
- chouchoutez indicative plural present
- chouchoutent indicative plural present
- chouchoutais first-person imperfect indicative
- chouchoutait imperfect indicative singular
- chouchoutions first-person imperfect indicative
- chouchoutiez imperfect indicative plural
- chouchoutaient imperfect indicative plural
- chouchoutai first-person historic indicative
- chouchoutas historic indicative past
- chouchouta historic indicative past
- chouchoutâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chouchouter?
- /ʃu.ʃu.te/
- \ʃu.ʃu.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chouchouter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chouchouter in French?
chouchouter appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).