Chalais
\ʃa.lɛ\
The verdict
“Chalais” is uncommon French (frequency #68,897 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,897
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune située dans le département de la Charente, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chalais · Chalais · French
Chalais · rank #68,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,897
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chacuns
Nearest frequency peer: chacuns (-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 « Chalais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ceste
ceste
31,106 corpus weight
- chacuns
chacuns
31,105 corpus weight
- Chalais
Chalais
31,104 corpus weight
- Chandon
Chandon
31,103 corpus weight
- chantante
chantante
31,102 corpus weight
- chargeons
chargeons
31,101 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chalais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chalais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chalais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chalais is uncommon French at frequency #68,897 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃa.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Chalais, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Chalais, spelled C-H-A-L-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Commune située dans le département de la Charente, en France.
- 2Commune située dans le département de la Dordogne, en France.
- 3Commune située dans le département de l’Indre, en France.
- 4Commune située dans le département de la Vienne, en France.
- 5Commune du canton du Valais en Suisse.
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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