tchador
\tʃa.dɔʁ\
The verdict
“tchador” is uncommon French (frequency #80,704 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,704
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de tissu semicirculaire ouverte sur le devant, portée traditionnellement par les femmes iraniennes et dans quelques pays d'Asie centrale, tenue en place avec les mains, les dents, ou une pince.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tchador · tchador · French
tchador · rank #80,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,704
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Taupin
Nearest frequency peer: Taupin (-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 « tchador »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taras
taras
19,300 corpus weight
- tassel
tassel
19,299 corpus weight
- Taupin
Taupin
19,298 corpus weight
- tchador
tchador
19,297 corpus weight
- Tcheliabinsk
Tcheliabinsk
19,296 corpus weight
- teeth
teeth
19,295 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tchador » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tchador |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃa.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tchador » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tchador is uncommon French at frequency #80,704 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʃa.dɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pièce de tissu semicirculaire ouverte sur le devant, portée traditionnellement par les femmes iraniennes et dans quelques pays d'Asie centrale, tenue en place avec les mains, les dents, ou une pince.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tchador, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tchador, spelled T-C-H-A-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1Pièce de tissu semicirculaire ouverte sur le devant, portée traditionnellement par les femmes iraniennes et dans quelques pays d'Asie centrale, tenue en place avec les mains, les dents, ou une pince.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tchador appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour les musulmanes, le tchador peut se porter en plus du foulard pour compléter le hijab.
— J’y serai ! — J’y serai ! — Dussé-je vendre ma dernière brebis ! — Mon dernier outil ! — Le tchador de ma femme !
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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