chuchoter
\ʃy.ʃɔ.te\
The verdict
“chuchoter” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,407. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,407
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parler bas, parfois mystérieusement, sans le timbre de la voix (c'est-à-dire sans vibration des cordes vocales).
Corpus desk
Index FR-chuchoter · chuchoter · French
chuchoter · rank #48,407 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,407
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chérubin
Nearest frequency peer: chérubin (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chuchoter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charrie
charrie
51,598 corpus weight
- chasseuse
chasseuse
51,597 corpus weight
- chicorée
chicorée
51,596 corpus weight
- chuchoter
chuchoter
51,594 corpus weight
- chérubin
chérubin
51,593 corpus weight
- CIP
CIP
51,592 corpus weight
What this shows « chuchoter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chuchoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃy.ʃɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chuchoter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around chuchoter (IPA \ʃy.ʃɔ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,407 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for chuchoter, with forms such as "cchuchoter", "chcuhoter", and "chhuchoter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "chuchote", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chuchoter, spelled C-H-U-C-H-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Parler bas, parfois mystérieusement, sans le timbre de la voix (c'est-à-dire sans vibration des cordes vocales).
- 2Dire tout bas.
- 3Produire un bruit évoquant un chuchotement.
- 4Émettre des rumeurs favorables à un cheval de course avant une épreuve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chuchoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous ne parlerons pas, de peur de tomber dans des répétitions fastidieuses, de la salle des Secrets, où l’on remarque un effet d’acoustique singulier, et dont les angles sont noircis par le nez des curieux qui vont chuchoter quelque impertinence fidèlement transportée à l’autre coin.
Elle m'affirmait, en chuchotant, que le chuchotement était un raffinement considérable de la voix.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchuchoter
- chcuhoter
- chhuchoter
- chucchoter
- chuchhoter
- chuchoetr
- chuchoterr
- chuchotre
- chuchotter
- chuchtoer
- chucohter
- chuhcoter
- cuhchoter
- hcuchoter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chuchoter - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).