chagrin
/ˈʃaɡ.ɹɪn/
"chagrin" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chagrin” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,427. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,427
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chagrin · chagrin · English
chagrin · rank #34,427 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,427
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Ceres
Nearest frequency peer: Ceres (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “chagrin”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- CBE
CBE
65,577 corpus weight
- cede
cede
65,576 corpus weight
- Ceres
Ceres
65,575 corpus weight
- chagrin
chagrin
65,574 corpus weight
- Champlain
Champlain
65,573 corpus weight
- chock
chock
65,571 corpus weight
What this shows “chagrin” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | chagrin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃaɡ.ɹɪn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “chagrin”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chagrin (IPA /ˈʃaɡ.ɹɪn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,427 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chagrin, with forms such as "cahgrin", "cchagrin", and "chaggrin". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "chain", "Chapin", "Chaplin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French chagrin (“sorrow”), from Middle French chagrin (“pain, affliction”) (compare Middle French chagriner, chagrigner (“to experience sorrow”), Old French chagrin (“painful, afflicted”)), probably derived from Old Northern French chagreiner, chagraig… The correct English form is chagrin, spelled C-H-A-G-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.
- 2A type of leather or skin with a rough surface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chagrin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
much to the chagrin (of)
[H]e alone knew how deep was the deluded man's chagrin at the failure of the little plot which he fancied was prospering finely.
Etymology
From French chagrin (“sorrow”), from Middle French chagrin (“pain, affliction”) (compare Middle French chagriner, chagrigner (“to experience sorrow”), Old French chagrin (“painful, afflicted”)), probably derived from Old Northern French chagreiner, chagraigner (“to sadden”), of uncertain origin. Likely an enlargement of Old French greignier, graignier (“to cringe, growl, be sullen, be angry, grieve over”), from Old French graigne (“sadness, resentment, grief”), from graim (“sorrowful”), related to Old High German gram (“furious, gloomy, grieved”). The initial syllable is obscure. It may represent Old French chat (“cat”) to express the idea of "lamenting or yowling like cats" (compare German Katzenjammer (“distress, frustration, depression, chagrin”, literally “cat-wailing, cat-misery”), katzbalgen (“to cat-fight”)). An alternative theory is that it came from a metaphorical use of French chagrin, (peau de) chagrain (“a type of roughened leather”), with the connection of roughness, though some dictionaries consider this to be a separate word derived from Old French peau de sagrin, from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (sağrı, “the rump of an animal, skin for tawing”). The alteration of initial s to ch is likely due to influence from chagrin meaning "sorrow".
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahgrin
- cchagrin
- chaggrin
- chagirn
- chagrinn
- chagrni
- chagrrin
- chargin
- chgarin
- chhagrin
- hcagrin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chagrin - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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