chouraver
\ʃu.ʁa.ve\
The verdict
“chouraver” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voler, s’approprier le bien d’autrui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chouraver · chouraver · French
chouraver · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chouraver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃu.ʁa.ve\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chouraver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chouraver is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃu.ʁa.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chouraver, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 chouraver, spelled C-H-O-U-R-A-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Voler, s’approprier le bien d’autrui.
- 2Produire un bruit désagréable semblable à ces cris et gémissements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chouraver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celui qui a chouravé la formule s’est servi d’un pigeon pour l’adresser à qui de droit.
Viens faire un tour dans la ruelle J’te montrerai mon Opinel J’te chourav’rai ton blouson » Moi j’lui dis : « Laisse béton »
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.