chama
\ʃˈɐ.mɐ\
The verdict
“chama” is uncommon French (frequency #91,523 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,523
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flamme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chama · chama · French
chama · rank #91,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,523
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chambrier
Nearest frequency peer: chambrier (+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 « chama »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- centrant
centrant
8,481 corpus weight
- chak
chak
8,480 corpus weight
- chama
chama
8,478 corpus weight
- chambrier
chambrier
8,477 corpus weight
- Chams
Chams
8,476 corpus weight
- chemisiers
chemisiers
8,474 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chama » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃˈɐ.mɐ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chama » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chama is uncommon French at frequency #91,523 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃˈɐ.mɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Flamme.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chama in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 chama, spelled C-H-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Flamme.
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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