choucroute

/\ʃu.kʁut\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,280

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

choucroute is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chou blanc coupé en fins rubans et légèrement acidulé par un commencement de fermentation. Pronounced \ʃu.kʁut\.

Key facts for choucroute
PropertyValue
Headwordchoucroute
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃu.kʁut\
Letters10
Frequency rank#29,280
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of choucroute in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for choucroute is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃu.kʁut\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,280 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for choucroute, with forms such as "cchoucroute", "chhoucroute", and "chocuroute". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is choucroute, spelled C-H-O-U-C-R-O-U-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chou blanc coupé en fins rubans et légèrement acidulé par un commencement de fermentation.
  2. 2
    Type de chignon aux cheveux crêpés.
  3. 3
    Surnom donné au mastic fibré, utilisé lors du tuning de véhicules.
  4. 4
    Terme inséré par dérision dans une énumération de sujets graves.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cchoucroute,chhoucroute,chocuroute,chouccroute,choucorute,choucrotue,choucrouet,choucroutte,choucrroute,choucruote,chourcoute,chuocroute,cohucroute,hcoucroute

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for choucroute

Misspelling Variants of "choucroute"

cchoucroute11chhoucroute11chocuroute10chouccroute11choucorute10choucrotue10choucrouet10choucroutte11
Misspelling Variants of "choucroute"

Frequency rank: #29,280 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "choucroute"?
"choucroute" is spelled C-H-O-U-C-R-O-U-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃu.kʁut\.
What does "choucroute" mean?
As a noun, "choucroute" means: Chou blanc coupé en fins rubans et légèrement acidulé par un commencement de fermentation.
What are common misspellings of "choucroute"?
Common misspellings include "cchoucroute", "chhoucroute", "chocuroute", "chouccroute", "choucorute". The correct spelling is "choucroute".
How do you pronounce "choucroute"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "choucroute" is \ʃu.kʁut\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "choucroute" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.