chaire
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,287
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de tribune élevée et ordinairement surmontée d’un dais ou baldaquin dans laquelle se place le prêtre ou le pasteur pour prêcher, pour faire quelque lecture aux assistants, etc. Pronounced \ʃɛʁ\. It ranks #9,287 in French word frequency. Often confused with char and cire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chaire is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,287 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for chaire, with forms such as "cchaire", "chairre", and "charie". 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, "char", "cire", "chie", 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 chaire, spelled C-H-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de tribune élevée et ordinairement surmontée d’un dais ou baldaquin dans laquelle se place le prêtre ou le pasteur pour prêcher, pour faire quelque lecture aux assistants, etc.
- 2Prédication.
- 3Ensemble des prédicateurs.
- 4Siège apostolique.
- 5Tribune plus ou moins élevée où un professeur se place pour faire une leçon.
- 6Place de professeur en particulier dans une université, et par extension dans une grande école ou un établissement d'enseignement supérieur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchaire,chairre,charie,chhaire,chiare,hcaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chaire
Misspelling Variants of "chaire"
Frequency rank: #9,287 in French
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