chuchotement
\ʃy.ʃɔt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“chuchotement” is uncommon French (frequency #76,424 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,424
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de chuchoter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chuchotement · chuchotement · French
chuchotement · rank #76,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,424
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chignons
Nearest frequency peer: chignons (-2 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 « chuchotement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chevilly
Chevilly
23,581 corpus weight
- chiendent
chiendent
23,580 corpus weight
- chignons
chignons
23,579 corpus weight
- chuchotement
chuchotement
23,577 corpus weight
- chômeuse
chômeuse
23,575 corpus weight
- cinétiques
cinétiques
23,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chuchotement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chuchotement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃy.ʃɔt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chuchotement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chuchotement is uncommon French at frequency #76,424 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃy.ʃɔt.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chuchotement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chuchotement, spelled C-H-U-C-H-O-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de chuchoter.
- 2Bruit fait par cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chuchotement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne mêle plus, à ce qu’il nommait nos « jeux », ce libertinage qui s’aide d’une combinaison de miroirs, d’un livre… belge, de mots faits pour le chuchotement et qu’on se force à crier à haute voix, tout crus…
À pas dignes, il monta les quelques marches de la tribune, adressa à ses fidèles un ample geste de salutation destiné à faire taire les chuchotements.
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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