chaînes
\ʃɛn\
The verdict
“chaînes” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,665
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chaîne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaines · chaînes · French
chaînes · rank #3,665 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,665
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bénéfice
Nearest frequency peer: bénéfice (-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 « chaînes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bob
bob
96,339 corpus weight
- bruno
bruno
96,338 corpus weight
- bénéfice
bénéfice
96,337 corpus weight
- chaînes
chaînes
96,336 corpus weight
- cherché
cherché
96,335 corpus weight
- clinique
clinique
96,334 corpus weight
What this shows « chaînes » 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 | chaînes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chaînes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chaînes (IPA \ʃɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,665 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de chaîne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chaînes, with forms such as "cahînes", "cchaînes", and "chaines". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chais", "chaise", "chants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chaînes, spelled C-H-A-Î-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chaîne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chaînes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, celle-ci est une logique « binaire », c’est-à-dire une logique qui, en segmentalisant à outrance les chaînes de transfert de l’information (tout fonctionne sur la base du « oui-non »), et en imposant une logique de dissociation entre chaînes d’information et chaînes d’action de l’entreprise (du fait de la nécessité de « coder » et « traiter » les info…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahînes
- cchaînes
- chaines
- chanîes
- chaîens
- chaîness
- chaînnes
- chaînse
- chhaînes
- chîanes
- hcaînes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chaînes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chaînes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).