chaff
\ʃaf\
The verdict
“chaff” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélange, à parties égales, de paille et de foin coupés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaff · chaff · French
chaff · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaff |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chaff » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chaff is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mélange, à parties égales, de paille et de foin coupés.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chaff in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 chaff, spelled C-H-A-F-F.
Definition
- 1Mélange, à parties égales, de paille et de foin coupés.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.