chaînette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,583
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chaînette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite chaîne. Pronounced \ʃɛ.nɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaînette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chaînette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛ.nɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #66,583 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chaînette in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chaînette, spelled C-H-A-Î-N-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite chaîne.
- 2Sorte de voûte dont le cintre est semblable à la courbe d’une chaîne suspendue par les deux extrémités.
- 3Courbe plane, qui correspond à la forme que prend un câble lorsqu'il est suspendu par ses extrémités et soumis à son propre poids.
- 4La partie du harnais des chevaux de carrosse qui sert à soutenir le timon et à le reculer.
- 5Gouttière au bas d'un tympan.
- 6Troupe de soldats rangés en cercle et garantissant ceux qui sont chargés de fourrager.
- 7Accessoire, appelé aussi tricotin, permettant de tricoter un tube de laine.
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Frequency rank: #66,583 in French
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