Chagall

\ʃa.ɡal\

/\ʃa.ɡal\/ name

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The verdict

“Chagall” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,169. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,169
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chagall · Chagall · French

Chagall · rank #40,169 · 9 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #40,169
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cervicale

Nearest frequency peer: cervicale (-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 « Chagall »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Chagall » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Chagall vs chazal
57% similar
Chagall vs chacal
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Chagall
PropertyValue
HeadwordChagall
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ʃa.ɡal\
Letters7
Frequency rank#40,169
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chagall »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Chagallse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cervicale » (#40,168), « Charlton » (#40,170), « cath » (#40,167). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Chagall » est au #40,169. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around Chagall (IPA \ʃa.ɡal\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,169 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chagall, with forms such as "cahgall", "cchagall", and "chaagll". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "chazal", "chacal", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chagall, spelled C-H-A-G-A-L-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Chagall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Marc Chagall.
  2. Dès ce vendredi, l’Atelier des Lumières (11ᵉ) met à l’honneur le peintre français d’origine biélorusse, Marc Chagall, en lui consacrant une exposition numérique inédite.

This word in other languages

Chagall(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahgall
  • cchagall
  • chaagll
  • chagal
  • chaggall
  • chaglal
  • chgaall
  • chhagall
  • hcagall

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chagall - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cahgall2cchagall1chaagll2chagal1chaggall1chaglal2chgaall2chhagall1
Edit distance from "Chagall"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Chagall"?
"Chagall" is spelled C-H-A-G-A-L-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃa.ɡal\.
What does "Chagall" mean?
As a proper noun, "Chagall" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Chagall"?
"Chagall" is commonly confused with "chazal", "chacal". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Chagall"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Chagall" is \ʃa.ɡal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Chagall" come from?
"Chagall" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Chagall", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

charnel#40,172Chauvet#40,174Chelles#40,175cabanon#40,159

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

choral9 variantschérir9 variantsBattista9 variantsdemand9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list