chouchouter
\ʃu.ʃu.te\
The verdict
“chouchouter” is uncommon French (frequency #64,318 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,318
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traiter avec complaisance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chouchouter · chouchouter · French
chouchouter · rank #64,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,318
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chostakovitch
Nearest frequency peer: Chostakovitch (-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 « chouchouter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chibougamau
Chibougamau
35,686 corpus weight
- Chostakovit…
Chostakovitch
35,684 corpus weight
- chouchouter
chouchouter
35,683 corpus weight
- clarificati…
clarifications
35,682 corpus weight
- Cléon
Cléon
35,680 corpus weight
- Cogolin
Cogolin
35,679 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chouchouter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chouchouter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃu.ʃu.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chouchouter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chouchouter is uncommon French at frequency #64,318 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃu.ʃu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Traiter avec complaisance.".
chouchouter has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chouchouter, spelled C-H-O-U-C-H-O-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Traiter avec complaisance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chouchouter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moi, je te donne à Bijou comme un de mes oncles venu d’Allemagne en faillite, et tu seras chouchouté comme un dieu.
Elle dit qu'André a le trac. Chouchouté par sa mère toute sa vie, « c'est une fille » dit-elle.
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); 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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