chancelle
\ʃɑ̃.sɛl\
The verdict
“chancelle” is uncommon French (frequency #87,448 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,448
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chanceler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chancelle · chancelle · French
chancelle · rank #87,448 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,448
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chambranle
Nearest frequency peer: chambranle (-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 « chancelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chaigneau
Chaigneau
12,556 corpus weight
- chamallows
chamallows
12,555 corpus weight
- chambranle
chambranle
12,554 corpus weight
- chancelle
chancelle
12,553 corpus weight
- changerez
changerez
12,552 corpus weight
- charisma
charisma
12,550 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chancelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chancelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chancelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chancelle is uncommon French at frequency #87,448 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɑ̃.sɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chancelle, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chancelle, spelled C-H-A-N-C-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chanceler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chanceler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe chanceler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe chanceler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe chanceler.
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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