Chaix
\ʃɛ\
The verdict
“Chaix” is uncommon French (frequency #59,155 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,155
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Vendée intégrée à la commune de Auchay-sur-Vendée en janvier 2017.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaix · Chaix · French
Chaix · rank #59,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,155
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CED
Nearest frequency peer: CED (-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 « Chaix »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cde
cde
40,849 corpus weight
- CDF
CDF
40,848 corpus weight
- CED
CED
40,847 corpus weight
- Chaix
Chaix
40,846 corpus weight
- chauffes
chauffes
40,845 corpus weight
- chenu
chenu
40,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chaix » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chaix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chaix » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chaix is uncommon French at frequency #59,155 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Vendée intégrée à la commune de Auchay-sur-Vendée en janvier 2017.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Chaix, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chaix, spelled C-H-A-I-X.
Definition
- 1Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Vendée intégrée à la commune de Auchay-sur-Vendée en janvier 2017.
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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