chan
\tʃan\
The verdict
“chan” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,131
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée en Birmanie par les Chans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chan · chan · French
chan · rank #9,131 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,131
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaises
Nearest frequency peer: chaises (-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 « chan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Carlo
Carlo
90,873 corpus weight
- cessez
cessez
90,872 corpus weight
- chaises
chaises
90,871 corpus weight
- chan
chan
90,870 corpus weight
- Christopher
Christopher
90,869 corpus weight
- châteaux
châteaux
90,868 corpus weight
What this shows « chan » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃan\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around chan (IPA \tʃan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,131 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue parlée en Birmanie par les Chans.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for chan, with forms such as "cahn", "cchan", and "chann". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CN", "con", "cia", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chan, spelled C-H-A-N.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée en Birmanie par les Chans.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahn
- cchan
- chann
- chhan
- chna
- hcan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chan - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).