chti
\ʃti\
The verdict
“chti” is uncommon French (frequency #69,684 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,684
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chtimi, en rapport avec les habitants du nord de France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chti · chti · French
chti · rank #69,684 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,684
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chuchotant
Nearest frequency peer: chuchotant (+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 « chti »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chiquita
chiquita
30,320 corpus weight
- chlorhydrate
chlorhydrate
30,319 corpus weight
- chti
chti
30,317 corpus weight
- chuchotant
chuchotant
30,316 corpus weight
- cicatrise
cicatrise
30,315 corpus weight
- cimier
cimier
30,314 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chti » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chti |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃti\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chti » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chti is uncommon French at frequency #69,684 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chti, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chti, spelled C-H-T-I.
Definition
- 1Chtimi, en rapport avec les habitants du nord de France.
- 2Méchant.
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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