chacals
\ʃa.kal\
The verdict
“chacals” is uncommon French (frequency #50,710 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,710
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chacal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chacals · chacals · French
chacals · rank #50,710 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,710
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cella
Nearest frequency peer: cella (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chacals »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Castex
Castex
49,294 corpus weight
- caïman
caïman
49,293 corpus weight
- cella
cella
49,292 corpus weight
- chacals
chacals
49,291 corpus weight
- chalons
chalons
49,290 corpus weight
- chamber
chamber
49,289 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chacals » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chacals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.kal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chacals » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chacals is uncommon French at frequency #50,710 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chacal.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chacals, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chacals, spelled C-H-A-C-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chacal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chacals appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et loin, plus loin, là-bas, le sable aux dunes noires, Plein du cri des chacals et du renâclement De l’onagre, et parfois traversé brusquement Par quelque monstre épais qui grinçait des mâchoires Et laissait après lui comme un ébranlement.
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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