chalets
\ʃa.lɛ\
The verdict
“chalets” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,893. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,893
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chalet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chalets · chalets · French
chalets · rank #24,893 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,893
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CGI
Nearest frequency peer: CGI (-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 « chalets »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caro
caro
75,110 corpus weight
- CGI
CGI
75,109 corpus weight
- chalets
chalets
75,108 corpus weight
- chandler
chandler
75,107 corpus weight
- chantre
chantre
75,106 corpus weight
- chaperon
chaperon
75,105 corpus weight
What this shows « chalets » 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 | chalets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chalets »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chalets (IPA \ʃa.lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,893 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de chalet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chalets, with forms such as "cahlets", "cchalets", and "chaelts". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "chats", "chants", "Cholet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chalets, spelled C-H-A-L-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chalet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chalets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autour de l’habitation principale dont M. d’Orbe dispose, sont épars assez loin quelques chalets, qui de leurs toits de chaume peuvent couvrir l’amour et le plaisir, amis de la simplicité rustique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahlets
- cchalets
- chaelts
- chalest
- chaletss
- chaletts
- challets
- chaltes
- chhalets
- chlaets
- hcalets
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chalets - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chalets", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).