chanteuse
\ʃɑ̃.tøz\
The verdict
“chanteuse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,470. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,470
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui chante, qui module sa voix pour produire de la musique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chanteuse · chanteuse · French
chanteuse · rank #4,470 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,470
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bosser
Nearest frequency peer: bosser (-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 « chanteuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bail
bail
95,534 corpus weight
- banc
banc
95,533 corpus weight
- bosser
bosser
95,532 corpus weight
- chanteuse
chanteuse
95,531 corpus weight
- chimiques
chimiques
95,530 corpus weight
- civilisation
civilisation
95,529 corpus weight
What this shows « chanteuse » 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 | chanteuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.tøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chanteuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around chanteuse (IPA \ʃɑ̃.tøz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,470 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme qui chante, qui module sa voix pour produire de la musique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for chanteuse, with forms such as "cahnteuse", "cchanteuse", and "chanetuse". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "chasseuse", "chartreuse", "chanteuses", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chanteuse, spelled C-H-A-N-T-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui chante, qui module sa voix pour produire de la musique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chanteuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahnteuse
- cchanteuse
- chanetuse
- channteuse
- chantesue
- chanteues
- chanteusse
- chantteuse
- chantuese
- chatneuse
- chhanteuse
- chnateuse
- hcanteuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chanteuse - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chanteuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).