chai
\ʃɛ\
The verdict
“chai” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,999. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,999
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Magasin au ras du sol, tenant lieu de cave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chai · chai · French
chai · rank #26,999 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,999
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cessions
Nearest frequency peer: cessions (-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 « chai »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- casimir
casimir
73,005 corpus weight
- centralisée
centralisée
73,004 corpus weight
- cessions
cessions
73,003 corpus weight
- chai
chai
73,002 corpus weight
- chandelles
chandelles
73,001 corpus weight
- changerai
changerai
73,000 corpus weight
What this shows « chai » 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 | chai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chai »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around chai (IPA \ʃɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,999 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for chai, with forms such as "cahi", "cchai", and "chhai". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ci", "cri", "cia", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chai, spelled C-H-A-I.
Definition
- 1Magasin au ras du sol, tenant lieu de cave.
- 2Petit local de stockage, remise située en dehors de la maison et servant généralement à ranger du bois ou autres choses.
- 3Lieu d’affinage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Donis, qui a plusieurs navires faisant régulièrement les voyages de l’Inde, les charge tous, pour une certaine partie, de son vin, qu’il soigne comme un père soigne ses enfants, et quand nous visiterons ses chais, qui sont des palais, vous verrez des bouteilles couchées sur des étagères dorées.
Il venait, avec Maddalena, de traverser le vaste chai où une petite voie ferrée allongeait ses rails, sur le sol cimenté. D'énormes foudres, hauts de trois mètres, alignaient leurs cerceaux ovales, d'un bout à l'autre de la galerie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahi
- cchai
- chhai
- chia
- hcai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chai - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).