chronophage
\kʁɔ.nɔ.faʒ\
The verdict
“chronophage” is uncommon French (frequency #55,819 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,819
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui occupe, consomme, ou fait perdre beaucoup trop de temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chronophage · chronophage · French
chronophage · rank #55,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,819
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cires
Nearest frequency peer: cires (+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 « chronophage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cheminements
cheminements
44,186 corpus weight
- chesterfield
chesterfield
44,185 corpus weight
- chronophage
chronophage
44,182 corpus weight
- cires
cires
44,181 corpus weight
- cligner
cligner
44,178 corpus weight
- clouée
clouée
44,177 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chronophage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chronophage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.nɔ.faʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chronophage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chronophage is uncommon French at frequency #55,819 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁɔ.nɔ.faʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui occupe, consomme, ou fait perdre beaucoup trop de temps.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chronophage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 chronophage, spelled C-H-R-O-N-O-P-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Qui occupe, consomme, ou fait perdre beaucoup trop de temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chronophage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Assez fréquents sont les faux ménages d'artistes, d'écrivains ou de savants : les exigences mondaines, que redoute leur gaucherie, contrecarrent aussi sans cesse le chercheur laborieux, et Faguet appelait la femme un être chronophage.
Ne cachons pas tout d’abord que la mycologie est chronophage et que ce n’est pas en une saison que l’amateur pourra reconnaitre toute sa cueillette.
Synonyms
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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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