Champsaur
\ʃɑ̃p.sɔʁ\
The verdict
“Champsaur” is uncommon French (frequency #73,000 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,000
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Haute vallée du Drac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-champsaur · Champsaur · French
Champsaur · rank #73,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,000
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chalandon
Nearest frequency peer: Chalandon (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Champsaur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cassano
Cassano
27,005 corpus weight
- cerdan
cerdan
27,003 corpus weight
- Chalandon
Chalandon
27,002 corpus weight
- Champsaur
Champsaur
27,001 corpus weight
- changerons
changerons
27,000 corpus weight
- charbonnage
charbonnage
26,998 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Champsaur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Champsaur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Champsaur is uncommon French at frequency #73,000 among 8,609 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Champsaur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Géographiquement, le Champsaur fait partie du bassin de l’Isère, alors que la quasi-totalité des Hautes-Alpes appartient au bassin de la Durance.
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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