chalk
\t͡ʃɔːk\
The verdict
“chalk” is uncommon French (frequency #88,450 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,450
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Craie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chalk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \t͡ʃɔːk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chalk” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chalk is uncommon French at frequency #88,450 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \t͡ʃɔːk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chalk, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chalk, spelled C-H-A-L-K.
Definition
- 1Craie.
- 2Craie.
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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Using “chalk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-L-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.