chouiner
\ʃwi.ne\
The verdict
“chouiner” is uncommon French (frequency #55,140 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,140
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pleurer, pleurnicher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chouiner · chouiner · French
chouiner · rank #55,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,140
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH choisirent
Nearest frequency peer: choisirent (-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 « chouiner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chercheuses
chercheuses
44,865 corpus weight
- Chewbacca
Chewbacca
44,863 corpus weight
- choisirent
choisirent
44,862 corpus weight
- chouiner
chouiner
44,861 corpus weight
- Châteaudun
Châteaudun
44,859 corpus weight
- chétif
chétif
44,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chouiner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chouiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃwi.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chouiner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chouiner is uncommon French at frequency #55,140 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃwi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for chouiner in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chouiner, spelled C-H-O-U-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pleurer, pleurnicher.
- 2Se plaindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chouiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet enfant n’arrête pas de chouiner pour un rien.
Elle ne pleure pas vraiment, on dirait plutôt un bébé qui chouine.
Synonyms
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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