chanterelles
\ʃɑ̃.tʁɛl\
The verdict
“chanterelles” is uncommon French (frequency #97,771 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,771
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chanterelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chanterelles · chanterelles · French
chanterelles · rank #97,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,771
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chantale
Nearest frequency peer: Chantale (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chanterelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cembre
cembre
2,234 corpus weight
- centilitres
centilitres
2,233 corpus weight
- Chantale
Chantale
2,231 corpus weight
- chanterelles
chanterelles
2,230 corpus weight
- Charier
Charier
2,229 corpus weight
- Charléty
Charléty
2,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chanterelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chanterelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.tʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chanterelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chanterelles is uncommon French at frequency #97,771 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɑ̃.tʁɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chanterelle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chanterelles in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 chanterelles, spelled C-H-A-N-T-E-R-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chanterelle.
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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