chandelles
\ʃɑ̃.dɛl\
The verdict
“chandelles” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,000
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chandelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chandelles · chandelles · French
chandelles · rank #27,000 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,000
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chai
Nearest frequency peer: chai (-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 « chandelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- centralisée
centralisée
73,004 corpus weight
- cessions
cessions
73,003 corpus weight
- chai
chai
73,002 corpus weight
- chandelles
chandelles
73,001 corpus weight
- changerai
changerai
73,000 corpus weight
- Charly
Charly
72,999 corpus weight
What this shows « chandelles » 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 | chandelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.dɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #27,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chandelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around chandelles (IPA \ʃɑ̃.dɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,000 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de chandelle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for chandelles, with forms such as "cahndelles", "cchandelles", and "chadnelles". 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, "chapelles", "chandelle", "chandelier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chandelles, spelled C-H-A-N-D-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chandelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chandelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il dit à sa femme d’approprier leur chambre, qu’est par en bas ; il fait du feu dans la cheminée, allume deux chandelles, place deux chaises d’un côté de l’âtre, et met de l’autre côté un escabeau.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahndelles
- cchandelles
- chadnelles
- chanddelles
- chandelels
- chandeles
- chandelless
- chandellse
- chandleles
- chanedlles
- channdelles
- chhandelles
- chnadelles
- hcandelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chandelles - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).