Champsaur
\ʃɑ̃p.sɔʁ\
The verdict
“Champsaur” is uncommon French (frequency #73,000 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,000
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Haute vallée du Drac.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Champsaur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃p.sɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Champsaur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Champsaur is uncommon French at frequency #73,000 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃɑ̃p.sɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Haute vallée du Drac.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Champsaur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is Champsaur, spelled C-H-A-M-P-S-A-U-R.
Definition
- 1Haute vallée du Drac.
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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Using “Champsaur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-M-P-S-A-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃɑ̃p.sɔʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.