chantais
\ʃɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“chantais” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,700
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chanter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chantais · chantais · French
chantais · rank #41,700 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,700
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH centro
Nearest frequency peer: centro (-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 « chantais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- causera
causera
58,304 corpus weight
- cavalli
cavalli
58,303 corpus weight
- centro
centro
58,302 corpus weight
- chantais
chantais
58,301 corpus weight
- chantons
chantons
58,300 corpus weight
- Chara
Chara
58,299 corpus weight
What this shows « chantais » 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 | chantais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chantais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around chantais (IPA \ʃɑ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,700 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 chantais, with forms such as "cahntais", "cchantais", and "chanatis". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "chants", "Chantal", "chantes", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chantais, spelled C-H-A-N-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chanter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chanter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chantais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai entendu la surveillante qui t’a engueulée hier parce que tu chantais.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahntais
- cchantais
- chanatis
- channtais
- chantaiss
- chantasi
- chantias
- chanttais
- chatnais
- chhantais
- chnatais
- hcantais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chantais - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).