chanfrein
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#80,978
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
chanfrein is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite surface que l’on forme en abattant l’arête d’une pierre ou d’une pièce de bois ou de métal. Pronounced \ʃɑ̃.fʁɛ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chanfrein |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.fʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chanfrein is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɑ̃.fʁɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #80,978 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chanfrein in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chanfrein, spelled C-H-A-N-F-R-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite surface que l’on forme en abattant l’arête d’une pierre ou d’une pièce de bois ou de métal.
- 2Pièce de fer qui couvrait autrefois le devant de la tête d’un cheval armé.
- 3Devant de la tête du cheval ou d'autres mammifères herbivores à face allongée (moutons, caprins). Désigne ainsi la partie antérieure de la tête de certains mammifères qui va du front aux naseaux (équidés, ovins).
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #80,978 in French
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