chanson
[ʃɑ̃.sɔ̃]
The verdict
“chanson” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #33,510 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #33,510
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - gesungenes Musikstück
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 | chanson |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃɑ̃.sɔ̃] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chanson” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for chanson is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃɑ̃.sɔ̃]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,510 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "gesungenes Musikstück".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chanson, with forms such as "cahnson", "cchanson", and "channson". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "canon", "Canyon", "Carson", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is chanson, spelled C-H-A-N-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1gesungenes Musikstück
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahnson,cchanson,channson,chanosn,chansno,chansonn,chansson,chasnon,chhanson,chnason,hcanson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chanson - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “chanson”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-H-A-N-S-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʃɑ̃.sɔ̃] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “canon” - see the side-by-side comparison. chanson vs canon
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.