chronographe
\kʁɔ.nɔ.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“chronographe” is uncommon French (frequency #60,640 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,640
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui ou celle qui écrit sur la chronologie des évènements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chronographe · chronographe · French
chronographe · rank #60,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,640
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Christus
Nearest frequency peer: Christus (-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 « chronographe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chocolatée
chocolatée
39,365 corpus weight
- choisissaie…
choisissaient
39,364 corpus weight
- Christus
Christus
39,362 corpus weight
- chronographe
chronographe
39,361 corpus weight
- cisterciens
cisterciens
39,358 corpus weight
- civilisées
civilisées
39,357 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chronographe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chronographe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.nɔ.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chronographe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chronographe is uncommon French at frequency #60,640 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔ.nɔ.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui ou celle qui écrit sur la chronologie des évènements.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chronographe in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 chronographe, spelled C-H-R-O-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Celui ou celle qui écrit sur la chronologie des évènements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chronographe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l’époque dont il s’agit il est vrai que la leçon de la date peut, absolument parlant, varier entre 225 & 226, c’est-à-dire, on peut douter si le chronographe avoit écrit 225 ou 226; ce qui reste des chiffres ne permettant pas de s’en assurer mieux, au rapport de Selden, premier éditeur de la chronique de Paros.
Les chronographes ne s’accordent pas toujours entre eux; les diverses autorités paraissent fréquemment inconciliables, parfois même inintelligibles, et les érudits, en s'appliquant à introduire dans ce chaos l’ordre et la lumière, n’ont fait le plus souvent qu’accroître les ténèbres et la confusion.
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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