# Chantal

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #38,328

## Definitions
1. A female given name from French.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French Chantal in the 1960s, from the surname of a French saint Jeanne de Chantal, actually a Baroness of Chantal, a place name in France from Old Occitan cantal (“stone, moellon, rubblestone”).

## Easily confused with
- **coastal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chantal-vs-coastal)
- **cranial** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chantal-vs-cranial)
- **canal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/canal-vs-chantal)
- **chant** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chant-vs-chantal)
- **Chanel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chanel-vs-chantal)
- **channel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/channel-vs-chantal)
- **chancel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chancel-vs-chantal)

## Common misspellings (11)
`cahntal`, `cchantal`, `chanatl`, `channtal`, `chantall`, `chantla`, `chanttal`, `chatnal`, `chhantal`, `chnatal`, `hcantal`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/chantal