Chalandon
\ʃa.lɑ̃.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“Chalandon” is uncommon French (frequency #72,999 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,999
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chalandon · Chalandon · French
Chalandon · rank #72,999 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,999
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cerdan
Nearest frequency peer: cerdan (-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 « Chalandon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- casqué
casqué
27,006 corpus weight
- Cassano
Cassano
27,005 corpus weight
- cerdan
cerdan
27,003 corpus weight
- Chalandon
Chalandon
27,002 corpus weight
- Champsaur
Champsaur
27,001 corpus weight
- changerons
changerons
27,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chalandon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chalandon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.lɑ̃.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chalandon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chalandon is uncommon French at frequency #72,999 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃa.lɑ̃.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Chalandon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Chalandon, spelled C-H-A-L-A-N-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
- 2Albin Chalandon (né en 1920), homme politique français.
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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