chuchotant
\ʃy.ʃo.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“chuchotant” is uncommon French (frequency #69,685 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,685
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui chuchote.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chuchotant · chuchotant · French
chuchotant · rank #69,685 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,685
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chti
Nearest frequency peer: chti (-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 « chuchotant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- cirée
cirée
30,313 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chuchotant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chuchotant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃy.ʃo.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chuchotant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chuchotant is uncommon French at frequency #69,685 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃy.ʃo.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui chuchote.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chuchotant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chuchotant, spelled C-H-U-C-H-O-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui chuchote.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chuchotant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au loin, les grillons chantaient dans les prés Sainte-Claire, et la Viorne avait à leurs pieds des voix chuchotantes d’amoureux, des bruits adoucis de lèvres humides.
Tout un flot de foule, d’ombres vagues et chuchotantes, s’en alla. Seules, des femmes restèrent, agenouillées et priant.
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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