chutney
\ʃœt.nɛ\
The verdict
“chutney” is uncommon French (frequency #74,656 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,656
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sauce, souvent aigre-douce, servie en accompagnement de mets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chutney · chutney · French
chutney · rank #74,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,656
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH châles
Nearest frequency peer: châles (+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 « chutney »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chim
chim
25,348 corpus weight
- chipset
chipset
25,347 corpus weight
- chutney
chutney
25,345 corpus weight
- châles
châles
25,344 corpus weight
- cisaille
cisaille
25,343 corpus weight
- cistercien
cistercien
25,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chutney » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chutney |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃœt.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chutney » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chutney is uncommon French at frequency #74,656 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃœt.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sauce, souvent aigre-douce, servie en accompagnement de mets.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chutney, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chutney, spelled C-H-U-T-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Sauce, souvent aigre-douce, servie en accompagnement de mets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chutney appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il en est de même des moutardes douces (type Savora), des sauces vinaigrées d’origine anglaise (pickles, chutney) et de la Worcestershire sauce.
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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