Chambray

name

The verdict

“Chambray” is uncommon French (frequency #76,415 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,415
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française du département de l’Eure.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chambray · Chambray · French

Chambray · rank #76,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #76,415
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH CGP

Nearest frequency peer: CGP (-2 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 « Chambray »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chambray » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Chambray
PropertyValue
HeadwordChambray
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#76,415
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Chambray » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Chambraytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « CGP » (#76,413), « chasselas » (#76,417), « certificate » (#76,412). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Chambray » est au #76,415. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Chambray is uncommon French at frequency #76,415 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française du département de l’Eure.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Chambray in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chambray, spelled C-H-A-M-B-R-A-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française du département de l’Eure.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Elle est même devenue « la meilleure pivot du monde, assure Manon Houette, joueuse de Chambray et consultante de BeIN Sports, qui diffuse la compétition ».

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 "Chambray"?
"Chambray" is spelled C-H-A-M-B-R-A-Y.
What does "Chambray" mean?
As a proper noun, "Chambray" means: Commune française du département de l’Eure.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list