chaire

/\ʃɛʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for chaire
PropertyValue
Headwordchaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɛʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#9,287
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chaire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Prédication.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des prédicateurs.
  4. 4
    Siège apostolique.
  5. 5
    Tribune plus ou moins élevée où un professeur se place pour faire une leçon.
  6. 6
    Place de professeur en particulier dans une université, et par extension dans une grande école ou un établissement d'enseignement supérieur.

This word in other languages

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"

cchaire7chairre7charie6chhaire7chiare6hcaire6
Misspelling Variants of "chaire"

Frequency rank: #9,287 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chaire"?
"chaire" is spelled C-H-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɛʁ\.
What does "chaire" mean?
As a noun, "chaire" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "chaire"?
"chaire" is commonly confused with "char", "cire", "chie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chaire" is \ʃɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chaire" come from?
"chaire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.