chablis
\ʃa.bli\
The verdict
“chablis” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,225. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,225
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bois abattu par le vent ou qui est tombé de vétusté dans une forêt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chablis · chablis · French
chablis · rank #42,225 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,225
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH changeras
Nearest frequency peer: changeras (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chablis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- centrifuge
centrifuge
57,779 corpus weight
- cerbère
cerbère
57,778 corpus weight
- chablis
chablis
57,776 corpus weight
- changeras
changeras
57,775 corpus weight
- chantées
chantées
57,774 corpus weight
- Chatham
Chatham
57,773 corpus weight
What this shows « chablis » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | chablis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.bli\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chablis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chablis (IPA \ʃa.bli\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,225 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chablis, with forms such as "cahblis", "cchablis", and "chabblis". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "chais", "Charles", "charlie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chablis, spelled C-H-A-B-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Bois abattu par le vent ou qui est tombé de vétusté dans une forêt.
- 2Tout arbre malade ou mort, dont l’exploitation n’est pas planifiée dans l’aménagement.
- 3Vin blanc sec produit dans la région de Chablis, en Bourgogne.
- 4Synonyme de chardonnay blanc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chablis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chablis issus des tempêtes de 1999 ont d’abord été colonisés par des insectes xylophages puis par des champignons lignivores qui ont dégradé la valeur des bois.
Lors du martelage des parcelles sinistrées, le gestionnaire peut être amené à marteler une tige non touchée s’il considère qu’elle est sans avenir compte-tenu des dégâts dans le peuplement qui l'entoure ou que son abattage est rendu nécessaire pour l’exploitation des chablis.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahblis
- cchablis
- chabblis
- chabils
- chabliss
- chabllis
- chablsi
- chalbis
- chbalis
- chhablis
- hcablis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chablis - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).