chaman
\ʃa.man\
The verdict
“chaman” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,177. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,177
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme dépositaire de la culture, des croyances et des pratiques spirituelles du chamanisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaman · chaman · French
chaman · rank #41,177 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,177
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chadwick
Nearest frequency peer: Chadwick (-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 « chaman »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- causse
causse
58,827 corpus weight
- celtics
celtics
58,826 corpus weight
- Chadwick
Chadwick
58,825 corpus weight
- chaman
chaman
58,824 corpus weight
- chau
chau
58,823 corpus weight
- chauffent
chauffent
58,822 corpus weight
What this shows « chaman » 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 | chaman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.man\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chaman »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chaman (IPA \ʃa.man\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,177 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Homme dépositaire de la culture, des croyances et des pratiques spirituelles du chamanisme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chaman, with forms such as "cahman", "cchaman", and "chaamn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "chan", "champ", "Chara", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chaman, spelled C-H-A-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Homme dépositaire de la culture, des croyances et des pratiques spirituelles du chamanisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chaman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chaman occupe des rôles très variés dans les sociétés traditionnelles, incluant la direction de la tribu, l’élaboration et la direction des rites spirituels, la guérison par sa connaissance des plantes ou une action psychique directe, l’enseignement, le conseil. #* Le chaman est un prédateur, un chasseur d’âmes : il tend les pièges, les nœuds, les trap…
Aux premiers jours du Nouvel An ou pendant une journée soigneusement choisie, les H’mông invitent un chaman (thây cúng) afin de réaliser une cérémonie de « dissipation du malheur » pour tous les membres de la famille avec le souhait d’apporter prospérité, bonnes santé et récoltes pour l’année à venir.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahman
- cchaman
- chaamn
- chamann
- chamman
- chamna
- chhaman
- chmaan
- hcaman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chaman - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).