chacun

/\ʃa.kœ̃\/ pron

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#681

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

chacun is aFrenchpron. It means: Chaque personne, chaque chose d’un tout, d’un ensemble dont il est question. Pronounced \ʃa.kœ̃\. It ranks #681 in French word frequency. Often confused with chan and chun.

Key facts for chacun
PropertyValue
Headwordchacun
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPron
IPA\ʃa.kœ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#681
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chacun in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chacun is 6 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.kœ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #681 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Chaque personne, chaque chose d’un tout, d’un ensemble dont il est question.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for chacun, with forms such as "cahcun", "cchacun", and "chaccun". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "chan", "chun", "chau", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chacun, spelled C-H-A-C-U-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chaque personne, chaque chose d’un tout, d’un ensemble dont il est question.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cahcun,cchacun,chaccun,chacnu,chacunn,chaucn,chcaun,chhacun,hcacun

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chacun

Misspelling Variants of "chacun"

cahcun6cchacun7chaccun7chacnu6chacunn7chaucn6chcaun6chhacun7
Misspelling Variants of "chacun"

Frequency rank: #681 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chacun"?
"chacun" is spelled C-H-A-C-U-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃa.kœ̃\.
What does "chacun" mean?
As a pron, "chacun" means: Chaque personne, chaque chose d’un tout, d’un ensemble dont il est question.
What words are commonly confused with "chacun"?
"chacun" is commonly confused with "chan", "chun", "chau". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chacun"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chacun" is \ʃa.kœ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chacun" come from?
"chacun" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.