châles
\ʃɑl\
The verdict
“châles” is uncommon French (frequency #74,657 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,657
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de châle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chales · châles · French
châles · rank #74,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,657
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chutney
Nearest frequency peer: chutney (-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 « châles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chim
chim
25,348 corpus weight
- chipset
chipset
25,347 corpus weight
- chutney
chutney
25,345 corpus weight
- châles
châles
25,344 corpus weight
- cisaille
cisaille
25,343 corpus weight
- cistercien
cistercien
25,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « châles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | châles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « châles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
châles is uncommon French at frequency #74,657 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɑl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de châle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for châles, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is châles, spelled C-H-Â-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de châle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how châles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, dit le commis en reconduisant Duronceret et Bixiou qui avaient choisi un châle pour Mme Schontz, nous allons choisir parmi nos vieux châles celui qui peut jouer le rôle du châle Sélim.
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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