champ

\ʃɑ̃\

/\ʃɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“champ” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,472
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parcelle de terre utilisée pour l’agriculture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-champ · champ · French

champ · rank #1,472 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,472
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH buts

Nearest frequency peer: buts (-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 « champ »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « champ » 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).

champ vs CMP
0% similar
champ vs chat
60% similar
champ vs char
60% similar

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

Key facts for champ
PropertyValue
Headwordchamp
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɑ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,472
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « champ »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).champse 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 « buts » (#1,471), « conférence » (#1,473), « bleu » (#1,470). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « champ » est au #1,472. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around champ (IPA \ʃɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,472 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 21 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for champ, with forms such as "cahmp", "cchamp", and "chammp". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CMP", "chat", "char", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is champ, spelled C-H-A-M-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    Parcelle de terre utilisée pour l’agriculture.
  2. 2
    Parcelle de terre utilisée pour l’agriculture.
  3. 3
    Parcelle de terre utilisée pour l’agriculture.
  4. 4
    Parcelle de terre utilisée pour l’agriculture.
  5. 5
    Parcelle de terre utilisée pour l’agriculture.
  6. 6
    Recul, espace.
  7. 7
    Recul, espace.
  8. 8
    Recul, espace.
  9. 9
    Recul, espace.
  10. 10
    Recul, espace.
  11. 11
    Recul, espace.
  12. 12
    Recul, espace.
  13. 13
    Carrière, sujet, occasion.
  14. 14
    Liberté, champ libre.
  15. 15
    Étendue plane.
  16. 16
    Étendue plane.
  17. 17
    Étendue plane.
  18. 18
    Étendue plane.
  19. 19
    Étendue plane.
  20. 20
    Fond de l’écu. Surface la plus basse des armoiries, délimitée par un périmètre. Seule sa couleur est blasonnée. Quand un blasonnement fait référence au champ, c’est pour éviter la répétition de la couleur utilisée pour le champ.
  21. 21
    Étendue géographique représentée sur une carte, à l’intérieur de l’orle si celui-ci existe ou se confondant avec la surface cartographiée dans le cas contraire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les champs d’avoine sont, certaines années, envahis par des plantes nuisibles telles que les chardons, les sanves, moutardes sauvages, ravenelles.
  2. Monsieur le juge, comment serait-il possible que je possédasse une vache tachetée ou pas tachetée, n’ayant ni étable pour la loger, ni champ pour la nourrir.

Synonyms

préattribut

This word in other languages

field(English)campo(Español)Feld(Deutsch)campo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahmp
  • cchamp
  • chammp
  • champp
  • chapm
  • chhamp
  • chmap
  • hcamp

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of champ - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

cahmp2cchamp1chammp1champp1chapm2chhamp1chmap2hcamp2
Edit distance from "champ"

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 "champ"?
"champ" is spelled C-H-A-M-P. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɑ̃\.
What does "champ" mean?
As a noun, "champ" means: Parcelle de terre utilisée pour l’agriculture.
What words are commonly confused with "champ"?
"champ" is commonly confused with "CMP", "chat", "char". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "champ"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "champ" is \ʃɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "champ" come from?
"champ" 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 "champ", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

voire#1,464lycée#1,482tirer#1,460somme#1,458

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

beauté8 variantsagence8 variantsavions8 variantsentier8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list