chanceux
\ʃɑ̃.sø\
The verdict
“chanceux” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,513. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,513
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est favorisé par la chance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chanceux · chanceux · French
chanceux · rank #8,513 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,513
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cercles
Nearest frequency peer: cercles (-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 « chanceux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- carnaval
carnaval
91,491 corpus weight
- censée
censée
91,490 corpus weight
- cercles
cercles
91,489 corpus weight
- chanceux
chanceux
91,488 corpus weight
- chauffe
chauffe
91,487 corpus weight
- chutes
chutes
91,486 corpus weight
What this shows « chanceux » 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 | chanceux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.sø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chanceux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around chanceux (IPA \ʃɑ̃.sø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,513 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for chanceux, with forms such as "cahnceux", "cchanceux", and "chacneux". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "chanteur", "chance", "chances", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 chanceux, spelled C-H-A-N-C-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est favorisé par la chance.
- 2Qui dépend de la chance, aléatoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chanceux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans cette lutte, naturellement, les plus forts et les plus chanceux devaient vaincre, et, de différentes manières, exploiter et opprimer les vaincus.
« Mon pauvre Juste, vous n’avez pas eu une vie chanceuse. »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahnceux
- cchanceux
- chacneux
- chancceux
- chanceuxx
- chancexu
- chancuex
- chanecux
- channceux
- chhanceux
- chnaceux
- hcanceux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chanceux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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