Chambray
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
- centrisme
centrisme
23,591 corpus weight
- certif
certif
23,590 corpus weight
- certificate
certificate
23,589 corpus weight
- CGP
CGP
23,588 corpus weight
- Chambray
Chambray
23,586 corpus weight
- chasselas
chasselas
23,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chambray » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chambray |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chambray » en français
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
- 1Commune française du département de l’Eure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chambray appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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