chancel
French, noun\ʃɑ̃.səl\
chancel is spelled C-H-A-N-C-E-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,881st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chancel is a French masculine noun meaning “chancel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Clôture de pierre ou de bois séparant le chœur liturgique de la nef”.
What does chancel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechancel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Clôture de pierre ou de bois séparant le chœur liturgique de la nef.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chancel
- chancels plural
- cancel alternative
- chanceau alternative
- cancelle
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chancel?
- \ʃɑ̃.səl\
- [ʃɑ̃.səl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chancel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chancel in French?
chancel appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).