châle
\ʃɑl\
The verdict
“châle” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,170
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cape féminine consistant en un carré de tissu qu'on met sur son dos et ses épaules pour se tenir au chaud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chale · châle · French
châle · rank #33,170 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,170
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Christoph
Nearest frequency peer: Christoph (-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 « châle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Chevènement
Chevènement
66,834 corpus weight
- chimio
chimio
66,833 corpus weight
- Christoph
Christoph
66,832 corpus weight
- châle
châle
66,831 corpus weight
- Clairefonta…
Clairefontaine
66,830 corpus weight
- CMS
CMS
66,829 corpus weight
What this shows « châle » 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 | châle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « châle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around châle (IPA \ʃɑl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,170 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for châle, with forms such as "cchâle", "chale", and "chhâle". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clé", "che", "chat", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is châle, spelled C-H-Â-L-E.
Definition
- 1Cape féminine consistant en un carré de tissu qu'on met sur son dos et ses épaules pour se tenir au chaud.
- 2Longue pièce d’étoffe dont les Orientaux se servent comme de turban, de manteau, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how châle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’adoption de ce châle a rendu leur costume plus décent en voilant, dans son ampleur, le nu et les formes un peu trop fortement dessinées.
— Attends ! ma tigresse, dit en riant Valérie, ton châle est de travers.. Tu ne sais pas encore porter un châle, malgré mes leçons, au bout de trois ans, et tu veux être madame la maréchale Hulot.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchâle
- chale
- chhâle
- chlâe
- châel
- châlle
- câhle
- hcâle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of châle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).