chus

\ʃys\

/\ʃys\/ noun

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The verdict

“chus” is uncommon French (frequency #72,181 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,181
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne mesure grecque, puis romaine, utilisée pour mesurer les liquides.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chus · chus · French

chus · rank #72,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,181
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH churros

Nearest frequency peer: churros (-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 « chus »

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 « chus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for chus
PropertyValue
Headwordchus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃys\
Letters4
Frequency rank#72,181
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « chus » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.chustombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « churros » (#72,180), « cimon » (#72,182), « chronic » (#72,179). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chus » est au #72,181. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

chus is uncommon French at frequency #72,181 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne mesure grecque, puis romaine, utilisée pour mesurer les liquides.".

chus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chus, spelled C-H-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne mesure grecque, puis romaine, utilisée pour mesurer les liquides.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un chus d'huile peſe ſept liures & demie, un chus de vin peſe huict liures & quatre onces
  2. Il est clair que le chus d'huile coûtait 4 1/2. drach. impôt compris.

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 "chus"?
"chus" is spelled C-H-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃys\.
What does "chus" mean?
As a noun, "chus" means: Ancienne mesure grecque, puis romaine, utilisée pour mesurer les liquides.
How do you pronounce "chus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chus" is \ʃys\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chus" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

coda#72,195ceva#72,164Brno#72,136bohr#72,120

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list