Chailly
The verdict
“Chailly” is uncommon French (frequency #81,871 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,871
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chailly · Chailly · French
Chailly · rank #81,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,871
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charnus
Nearest frequency peer: charnus (+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 « Chailly »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- censément
censément
18,134 corpus weight
- centennial
centennial
18,133 corpus weight
- cervo
cervo
18,132 corpus weight
- Chailly
Chailly
18,130 corpus weight
- charnus
charnus
18,129 corpus weight
- chenin
chenin
18,127 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chailly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chailly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chailly » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chailly is uncommon French at frequency #81,871 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Chailly in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Chailly, spelled C-H-A-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chailly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Riccardo Chailly.
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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