chacal
\ʃa.kal\
The verdict
“chacal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,336. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,336
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canidé carnivore d’Afrique et d’Asie, de taille moyenne ou petite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chacal · chacal · French
chacal · rank #32,336 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,336
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cendrier
Nearest frequency peer: cendrier (-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 « chacal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cartilage
cartilage
67,668 corpus weight
- cendrier
cendrier
67,666 corpus weight
- chacal
chacal
67,665 corpus weight
- chauffard
chauffard
67,664 corpus weight
- cherchée
cherchée
67,663 corpus weight
- chevalet
chevalet
67,662 corpus weight
What this shows « chacal » 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 | chacal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.kal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chacal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chacal (IPA \ʃa.kal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,336 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chacal, with forms such as "cahcal", "cchacal", and "chaacl". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Chara", "chacun", "cheval", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chacal, spelled C-H-A-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Canidé carnivore d’Afrique et d’Asie, de taille moyenne ou petite.
- 2Personne sournoise et opportuniste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chacal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car la région que nous traversons est assez giboyeuse, et les grands nemrods de la m'halla, […], qui ont emmené des meutes de lévriers et des faucons chasseurs, font des hécatombes de lièvres, de perdrix, de poules de Carthage, de renards et de chacals.
Au fond de la vallée de l’Oued Mia, un chacal aboie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahcal
- cchacal
- chaacl
- chacall
- chaccal
- chacla
- chcaal
- chhacal
- hcacal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chacal - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chacal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).