Chams
\ʃam\
The verdict
“Chams” is uncommon French (frequency #91,525 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,525
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de Cham.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chams · Chams · French
Chams · rank #91,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,525
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chambrier
Nearest frequency peer: chambrier (-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 « Chams »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chak
chak
8,480 corpus weight
- chama
chama
8,478 corpus weight
- chambrier
chambrier
8,477 corpus weight
- Chams
Chams
8,476 corpus weight
- chemisiers
chemisiers
8,474 corpus weight
- chicas
chicas
8,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chams » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chams |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃam\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chams » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chams is uncommon French at frequency #91,525 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de Cham.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Chams in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Chams, spelled C-H-A-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de Cham.
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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