chambertin
\ʃɑ̃.bɛʁ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“chambertin” is uncommon French (frequency #72,166 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,166
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin produit sur le territoire de Gevrey-Chambertin, en Côte-d’Or.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chambertin · chambertin · French
chambertin · rank #72,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,166
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaput
Nearest frequency peer: chaput (+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 « chambertin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cavallo
cavallo
27,838 corpus weight
- ceva
ceva
27,837 corpus weight
- chambertin
chambertin
27,835 corpus weight
- chaput
chaput
27,834 corpus weight
- charognes
charognes
27,833 corpus weight
- Chavigny
Chavigny
27,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chambertin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chambertin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.bɛʁ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chambertin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chambertin is uncommon French at frequency #72,166 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɑ̃.bɛʁ.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin produit sur le territoire de Gevrey-Chambertin, en Côte-d’Or.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chambertin, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chambertin, spelled C-H-A-M-B-E-R-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Vin produit sur le territoire de Gevrey-Chambertin, en Côte-d’Or.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chambertin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soyez philosophes comme moi, messieurs, mettez-vous à table et buvons ; rien ne fait paraître l’avenir couleur de rose comme de le regarder à travers un verre de chambertin.
Il y avait Bibulus O’Bumper. Il dit son mot sur le latour et le markbrünnen, sur le champagne mousseux et le chambertin, sur le richebourg et le saint-georges, sur le haut-brion, le léoville et le médoc, sur le barsac et le preignac, sur le grave, sur le sauterne, sur le laffite et sur le saint-péray. Il hocha la tête à l’endroit du clos-vougeot, et se va…
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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