chaînons
\ʃɛ.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“chaînons” is uncommon French (frequency #88,451 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,451
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chaînon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chainons · chaînons · French
chaînons · rank #88,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,451
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chalk
Nearest frequency peer: chalk (-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 « chaînons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cernées
cernées
11,554 corpus weight
- chagriné
chagriné
11,552 corpus weight
- chalk
chalk
11,551 corpus weight
- chaînons
chaînons
11,550 corpus weight
- cheminent
cheminent
11,548 corpus weight
- chercheure
chercheure
11,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chaînons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaînons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chaînons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chaînons is uncommon French at frequency #88,451 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛ.nɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chaînon.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chaînons, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chaînons, spelled C-H-A-Î-N-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chaînon.
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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