chais
\ʃɛ\
The verdict
“chais” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,299. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,299
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chai (pièce).
Corpus desk
Index FR-chais · chais · French
chais · rank #36,299 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,299
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cerisiers
Nearest frequency peer: cerisiers (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Carrère
Carrère
63,706 corpus weight
- cellulite
cellulite
63,704 corpus weight
- cerisiers
cerisiers
63,703 corpus weight
- chais
chais
63,702 corpus weight
- Chambon
Chambon
63,701 corpus weight
- chandelier
chandelier
63,700 corpus weight
What this shows « chais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around chais (IPA \ʃɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,299 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de chai (pièce).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for chais, with forms such as "cahis", "cchais", and "chaiss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chat", "Cris", "chic", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chais, spelled C-H-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chai (pièce).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahis
- cchais
- chaiss
- chasi
- chhais
- chias
- hcais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chais - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).