chair
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,410
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chair is aFrenchnoun. It means: Toutes les parties molles du corps humain et des animaux, et plus particulièrement la partie rouge des muscles. Pronounced \ʃɛʁ\. It ranks #4,410 in French word frequency. Often confused with Cir and CHR.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chair |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chair is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,410 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for chair, with forms such as "cahir", "cchair", and "chairr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cir", "CHR", "cher", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 chair, spelled C-H-A-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Toutes les parties molles du corps humain et des animaux, et plus particulièrement la partie rouge des muscles.
- 2Parties molles qu’on traverse avec l’instrument tranchant.
- 3Substance molle qu’on observe dans les solutions de continuité, formée principalement par les bourgeons vasculaires.
- 4La viande des animaux terrestres et des oiseaux, considérée comme aliment.
- 5Partie blanche ou rougeâtre, mais de nature musculeuse, que l’on mange dans les poissons.
- 6L’apparence, la peau, la carnation.
- 7Partie succulente de certains fruits, aussi appelée sarcocarpe.
- 8Être vivant, humain ou animal.
- 9Corps considéré en opposition à la nature spirituelle.
- 10Chez saint Paul, ensemble des pulsions éloignant de Dieu.
- 11Concupiscence charnelle.
- 12Corps senti du point de vue de la personne même.
- 13Côté de la peau opposé à celui où se trouve le poil.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahir,cchair,chairr,chari,chhair,chiar,hcair
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chair
Misspelling Variants of "chair"
Frequency rank: #4,410 in French
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