Chambon

\ʃɑ̃.bɔ̃\

/\ʃɑ̃.bɔ̃\/ name

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The verdict

“Chambon” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,300. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,300
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chambon · Chambon · French

Chambon · rank #36,300 · 11 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,300
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chais

Nearest frequency peer: chais (-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 « Chambon »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Chambon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Chambon vs chaton
57% similar
Chambon vs Charon
71% similar
Chambon vs chambre
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Chambon
PropertyValue
HeadwordChambon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ʃɑ̃.bɔ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#36,300
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chambon »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Chambonse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « chais » (#36,299), « chandelier » (#36,301), « cerisiers » (#36,298). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Chambon » est au #36,300. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around Chambon (IPA \ʃɑ̃.bɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,300 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chambon, with forms such as "cahmbon", "cchambon", and "chabmon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "chaton", "Charon", "chambre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Chambon, spelled C-H-A-M-B-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.
  2. 2
    Commune française, située dans le département du Cher.
  3. 3
    Forme brève du nom de la commune française de Chambon-sur-Voueize, située dans le département de la Creuse.
  4. 4
    Commune française, située dans le département du Gard.
  5. 5
    Commune française, située dans le département d’Indre-et-Loire.
  6. 6
    Hameau populeux de la commune française de Livry, située dans le département de la Nièvre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Chambon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Depuis l’ouverture d’une unité de soins palliatifs en 2021, la petite commune de Chambon est submergée par les actes de décès.
  2. À l’est, les hauteurs de Chambon font rebord à la vaste cuve fertile, coupée encore de quelques landes rétives et semée, au fond, de vastes étangs, aujourd’hui desséchés en partie et remplis de sables blancs bordés de joncs d’un vert sombre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahmbon
  • cchambon
  • chabmon
  • chambbon
  • chambno
  • chambonn
  • chammbon
  • chamobn
  • chhambon
  • chmabon
  • hcambon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chambon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

cahmbon2cchambon1chabmon2chambbon1chambno2chambonn1chammbon1chamobn2
Edit distance from "Chambon"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Chambon"?
"Chambon" is spelled C-H-A-M-B-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɑ̃.bɔ̃\.
What does "Chambon" mean?
As a proper noun, "Chambon" means: Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.
What words are commonly confused with "Chambon"?
"Chambon" is commonly confused with "chaton", "Charon", "chambre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Chambon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Chambon" is \ʃɑ̃.bɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Chambon" come from?
"Chambon" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Chambon", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list