chancelant
\ʃɑ̃s.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“chancelant” is uncommon French (frequency #75,492 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,492
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui chancelle, qui vacille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chancelant · chancelant · French
chancelant · rank #75,492 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,492
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chantonne
Nearest frequency peer: chantonne (+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 « chancelant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cesari
Cesari
24,513 corpus weight
- Cevipof
Cevipof
24,512 corpus weight
- chancelant
chancelant
24,509 corpus weight
- chantonne
chantonne
24,508 corpus weight
- chaperons
chaperons
24,507 corpus weight
- charbonnièr…
charbonnières
24,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chancelant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chancelant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃s.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chancelant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chancelant is uncommon French at frequency #75,492 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃɑ̃s.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chancelant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chancelant, spelled C-H-A-N-C-E-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui chancelle, qui vacille.
- 2Mal assuré.
- 3Qui manque de netteté.
- 4Irrésolu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chancelant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette chancelante bicoque bâtie en moellons était revêtue d’une couche de plâtre jauni, si fortement lézardée, qu’on craignait de la voir tomber au moindre effort du vent.
Cependant, le caractère vraiment ornemental et architectural des armoiries, qui ne tolérait pas une représentation des objets sous leur forme parfaitement naturelle, se conserva […] jusqu’au milieu du 16ᵉ [siècle]. Depuis, les bonnes traditions allèrent s’affaiblissant, jusqu’au 19ᵉ qui a été témoin de la décadence complète de cet art vénérable, dont il s…
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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