chairman
\ˈtʃɛɹ.mən\
The verdict
“chairman” is uncommon French (frequency #58,489 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,489
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Secrétaire général (pour un parti politique), président.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chairman · chairman · French
chairman · rank #58,489 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,489
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH centrifugeuse
Nearest frequency peer: centrifugeuse (-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 « chairman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- causeries
causeries
41,516 corpus weight
- ceinturon
ceinturon
41,514 corpus weight
- centrifugeu…
centrifugeuse
41,513 corpus weight
- chairman
chairman
41,512 corpus weight
- changeraient
changeraient
41,510 corpus weight
- chanterai
chanterai
41,509 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chairman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chairman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtʃɛɹ.mən\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chairman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chairman is uncommon French at frequency #58,489 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtʃɛɹ.mən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Secrétaire général (pour un parti politique), président.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chairman in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chairman, spelled C-H-A-I-R-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Secrétaire général (pour un parti politique), président.
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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