Chamalières
The verdict
“Chamalières” is uncommon French (frequency #82,780 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,780
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Puy-de-Dôme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chamalieres · Chamalières · French
Chamalières · rank #82,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,780
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH centrifugeuses
Nearest frequency peer: centrifugeuses (-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 « Chamalières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ceinte
ceinte
17,224 corpus weight
- celu
celu
17,223 corpus weight
- centrifugeu…
centrifugeuses
17,222 corpus weight
- Chamalières
Chamalières
17,221 corpus weight
- channels
channels
17,220 corpus weight
- chantiez
chantiez
17,219 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chamalières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chamalières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chamalières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chamalières is uncommon French at frequency #82,780 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Chamalières in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Chamalières, spelled C-H-A-M-A-L-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Puy-de-Dôme.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Puy-de-Dôme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chamalières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jusqu’au 30 mars, à Chamalières, dans le cadre de la semaine de la poésie, présentation du travail d’Odile Fix, poète, plasticienne et micro-éditeur.
Élu à 48 ans à la présidence de la République, l'ancien maire de Chamalières (Puy-de-Dôme) incarna la modernité, le temps d'un unique mandat. Il est mort ce mercredi du Covid à l'âge de 94 ans.
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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