chamois
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,397
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
chamois is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mammifère ruminant de la famille des Bovidés et de la sous-famille des Caprinés, de la taille d’une grande chèvre, qui vit dans les hautes montagnes. Pronounced \ʃa.mwa\. Often confused with Chaos and champs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chamois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.mwa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chamois is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.mwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,397 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for chamois, with forms such as "cahmois", "cchamois", and "chamios". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Chaos", "champs", "chinois", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chamois, spelled C-H-A-M-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mammifère ruminant de la famille des Bovidés et de la sous-famille des Caprinés, de la taille d’une grande chèvre, qui vit dans les hautes montagnes.
- 2Peau de cet animal rendue souple et moelleuse après toute une série de préparations.
- 3(Couleur) Nom de couleur en usage dans la mode et la décoration
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se blasonne comme le bouc dont il se distingue par les cornes. À rapprocher de bouc, bouquetin, chèvre et mouflon.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahmois,cchamois,chamios,chammois,chamoiss,chamosi,chaomis,chhamois,chmaois,hcamois
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Misspelling Variants of "chamois"
Frequency rank: #31,397 in French
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