chant

\ʃɑ̃\

/\ʃɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“chant” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,905
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Émission de sons variés et rythmés par lesquels la voix s’élève et s’abaisse, de manière à former un ensemble musical.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chant · chant · French

chant · rank #3,905 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,905
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH catalogue

Nearest frequency peer: catalogue (-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 « chant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chant vs CNT
0% similar
chant vs chat
80% similar
chant vs clan
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chant
PropertyValue
Headwordchant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɑ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,905
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.chantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « catalogue » (#3,904), « coach » (#3,906), « candidature » (#3,903). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chant » est au #3,905. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around chant (IPA \ʃɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,905 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for chant, with forms such as "cahnt", "cchant", and "channt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CNT", "chat", "clan", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 chant, spelled C-H-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Émission de sons variés et rythmés par lesquels la voix s’élève et s’abaisse, de manière à former un ensemble musical.
  2. 2
    Ramage ou cri des oiseaux.
  3. 3
    Cri du coq.
  4. 4
    Crissement de la cigale.
  5. 5
    Partie mélodique d’une musique quelconque, pour la distinguer de l’accompagnement des instruments.
  6. 6
    Certaines pièces de poésie qui se chantent ou peuvent se chanter.
  7. 7
    Toute composition en vers.
  8. 8
    Chacune des divisions d’un poème épique ou didactique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Chant d’allégresse.
  2. Chants de triomphe.

Synonyms

hymnemélodiemélopée

This word in other languages

singing(English)canto(Español)Gesang(Deutsch)canto(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahnt
  • cchant
  • channt
  • chantt
  • chatn
  • chhant
  • chnat
  • hcant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

cahnt2cchant1channt1chantt1chatn2chhant1chnat2hcant2
Edit distance from "chant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chant"?
"chant" is spelled C-H-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɑ̃\.
What does "chant" mean?
As a noun, "chant" means: Émission de sons variés et rythmés par lesquels la voix s’élève et s’abaisse, de manière à former un ensemble musical.
What words are commonly confused with "chant"?
"chant" is commonly confused with "CNT", "chat", "clan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chant" is \ʃɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chant" come from?
"chant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

coach#3,906biais#3,899écris#3,886guère#3,924

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

boucle8 variantsdevais8 variantsessayez8 variantsfroide8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list