chubby

\tʃœ.bi\

/\tʃœ.bi\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chubby » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for chubby
PropertyValue
Headwordchubby
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\tʃœ.bi\
Letters6
Frequency rank#62,857
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « chubby » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).chubbytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « christique » (#62,856), « chuchotements » (#62,858), « cistercienne » (#62,859). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chubby » est au #62,857. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui est bien en chair, enveloppé, qui possède un peu de l’embonpoint.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chubby appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. moi je suis juste triste j’ai pas vu bcp de fan art ou il est chubby 😞 en vrai il est chubby le boug
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chubby"?
"chubby" is spelled C-H-U-B-B-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \tʃœ.bi\.
What does "chubby" mean?
As an adjective, "chubby" means: Qui est bien en chair, enveloppé, qui possède un peu de l’embonpoint.
How do you pronounce "chubby"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chubby" is \tʃœ.bi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chubby" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chubby", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list