chamane
\ʃa.man\
The verdict
“chamane” is uncommon French (frequency #53,848 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,848
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dépositaire de la culture, des croyances et des pratiques spirituelles du chamanisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chamane · chamane · French
chamane · rank #53,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,848
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chanteloup
Nearest frequency peer: Chanteloup (+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 « chamane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Caucasien
Caucasien
46,156 corpus weight
- causal
causal
46,155 corpus weight
- chamane
chamane
46,153 corpus weight
- Chanteloup
Chanteloup
46,152 corpus weight
- Chapdelaine
Chapdelaine
46,151 corpus weight
- charogne
charogne
46,150 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chamane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chamane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.man\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chamane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chamane is uncommon French at frequency #53,848 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.man\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dépositaire de la culture, des croyances et des pratiques spirituelles du chamanisme.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chamane, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chamane, spelled C-H-A-M-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Dépositaire de la culture, des croyances et des pratiques spirituelles du chamanisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chamane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Astrologues, guérisseurs et chamanes avaient été consultés, on lui avait prescrit d’avaler, à chaque pleine lune, le prépuce d’un enfant fraîchement circoncis.
… et qui peut parler des heures de la manière dont les chamanes pratiquaient leur art. Lui-même ne cesse de rechercher « les cordes qui parlent de Dieu et du diable, cachés dans certaines sonorités archaïques… »
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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