chubby
\tʃœ.bi\
The verdict
“chubby” is uncommon French (frequency #62,857 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,857
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est bien en chair, enveloppé, qui possède un peu de l’embonpoint.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chubby · chubby · French
chubby · rank #62,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,857
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH christique
Nearest frequency peer: christique (-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 « chubby »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chiesa
chiesa
37,147 corpus weight
- christique
christique
37,145 corpus weight
- chubby
chubby
37,144 corpus weight
- chuchotemen…
chuchotements
37,143 corpus weight
- cistercienne
cistercienne
37,142 corpus weight
- claims
claims
37,141 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chubby » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chubby |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʃœ.bi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chubby » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chubby is uncommon French at frequency #62,857 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʃœ.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est bien en chair, enveloppé, qui possède un peu de l’embonpoint.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chubby, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chubby, spelled C-H-U-B-B-Y.
Definition
- 1Qui est bien en chair, enveloppé, qui possède un peu de l’embonpoint.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chubby appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
moi je suis juste triste j’ai pas vu bcp de fan art ou il est chubby 😞 en vrai il est chubby le boug
Mémo pour les copines chubbies comme moi : c'est pas parce que vous êtes victimes de grossophobie qu'il faut body-shamer les skinny :D.
Synonyms
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); 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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