chanté

\ʃɑ̃.te\

/\ʃɑ̃.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“chanté” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,353. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,353
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe chanter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chante · chanté · French

chanté · rank #8,353 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,353
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Catalogne

Nearest frequency peer: Catalogne (-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 « chanté »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « chanté » 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).

chanté vs chat
67% similar
chanté vs chute
50% similar
chanté vs chats
67% similar

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

Key facts for chanté
PropertyValue
Headwordchanté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʃɑ̃.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,353
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chanté »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).chantése 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 « Catalogne » (#8,352), « chauffer » (#8,354), « carrières » (#8,351). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chanté » est au #8,353. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around chanté (IPA \ʃɑ̃.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,353 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe chanter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for chanté, with forms such as "cahnté", "cchanté", and "channté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chat", "chute", "chats", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chanté, spelled C-H-A-N-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe chanter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Tout ce qui est chanté dans le film l’est en direct, rien n’a été préenregistré, raconte Bradley Cooper.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahnté
  • cchanté
  • channté
  • chante
  • chantté
  • chanét
  • chatné
  • chhanté
  • chnaté
  • hcanté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chanté - 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.

cahnté2cchanté1channté1chante1chantté1chanét2chatné2chhanté1
Edit distance from "chanté"

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 "chanté"?
"chanté" is spelled C-H-A-N-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɑ̃.te\.
What does "chanté" mean?
As a verb, "chanté" means: Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe chanter.
What words are commonly confused with "chanté"?
"chanté" is commonly confused with "chat", "chute", "chats". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chanté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chanté" is \ʃɑ̃.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chanté" come from?
"chanté" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chauve#8,355battus#8,342battue#8,341convoi#8,367

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

chauffer10 variantscalibre10 variantsBurkina10 variantsconcret10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list