chouilla
\ʃu.ja\
The verdict
“chouilla” is uncommon French (frequency #98,883 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,883
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe chouiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chouilla · chouilla · French
chouilla · rank #98,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,883
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chouille
Nearest frequency peer: chouille (+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 « chouilla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cherhal
Cherhal
1,122 corpus weight
- chiasme
chiasme
1,120 corpus weight
- chouilla
chouilla
1,118 corpus weight
- chouille
chouille
1,117 corpus weight
- choupo
choupo
1,116 corpus weight
- circuité
circuité
1,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chouilla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chouilla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃu.ja\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chouilla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chouilla is uncommon French at frequency #98,883 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃu.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe chouiller.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chouilla, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chouilla, spelled C-H-O-U-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe chouiller.
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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