chalands
\ʃa.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“chalands” is uncommon French (frequency #70,468 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,468
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chaland.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chalands · chalands · French
chalands · rank #70,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,468
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chargeaient
Nearest frequency peer: chargeaient (+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 « chalands »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caught
caught
29,536 corpus weight
- CCD
CCD
29,535 corpus weight
- chalands
chalands
29,533 corpus weight
- chargeaient
chargeaient
29,532 corpus weight
- charognard
charognard
29,531 corpus weight
- charpie
charpie
29,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chalands » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chalands |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chalands » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chalands is uncommon French at frequency #70,468 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chaland.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chalands, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chalands, spelled C-H-A-L-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chaland.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chalands appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi, dès qu’il arrive, agace-t-il les demoiselles de comptoir, dont les yeux vifs attirent force chalands ; se gaudit au sein des parures, des fichus, de la mousseline façonnée par ces habiles ouvrières ; ou, plus souvent encore, avant de dîner, il sert une pratique, copie une page du journal ou porte chez l’huissier quelque effet en retard.
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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