chouille
\ʃuj\
The verdict
“chouille” is uncommon French (frequency #98,884 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,884
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fête entre amis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chouille · chouille · French
chouille · rank #98,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,884
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chouilla
Nearest frequency peer: chouilla (-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 « chouille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- citronnée
citronnée
1,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chouille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃuj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chouille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chouille is uncommon French at frequency #98,884 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃuj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chouille, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chouille, spelled C-H-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Fête entre amis.
- 2Événement festif caractérisé par l’absorption excessive de substances alcooliques, illicites ou non, pour leurs effets psychotropes durant l’événement. Elle rassemble un certain nombre de personnes. Degré supérieur par rapport à la fête, et inférieur par rapport à l’orgie, même si certaines peuvent dériver vers cette dernière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y’avait mes oncles et mes tantes, mes parents, des vieux copains, quelques notables, les acteurs et les producteurs du film, et on avait fait la « chouille » dans un resto du coin.
Ils feraient du surf, des grillades, la chouille non-stop.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).