chanteuse

\ʃɑ̃.tøz\

/\ʃɑ̃.tøz\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « chanteuse » 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).

chanteuse vs chasseuse
78% similar
chanteuse vs chartreuse
80% similar
chanteuse vs chanteuses
90% similar

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

Key facts for chanteuse
PropertyValue
Headwordchanteuse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɑ̃.tøz\
Letters9
Frequency rank#4,470
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chanteuse »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).chanteusese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bosser » (#4,469), « chimiques » (#4,471), « banc » (#4,468). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chanteuse » est au #4,470. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Femme qui chante, qui module sa voix pour produire de la musique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Par exemple, avez-vous quelquefois réfléchi à certains mots irréguliers de notre langue qui ne prennent pas le féminin, comme les autres mots de la même famille, tels que : poëte, auteur, écrivain, peintre, sculpteur, architecte, compositeur, littérateur, etc. ? Pourquoi ne dit-on pas : peintresse, architectesse, poëtesse, comme on dit : prophétesse ou pr…
  2. La chanteuse rétro Nena Valverde sera la première à se produire dans une ambiance swing, cabaret et latino.

Synonyms

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.

cahnteuse2cchanteuse1chanetuse2channteuse1chantesue2chanteues2chanteusse1chantteuse1
Edit distance from "chanteuse"

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 "chanteuse"?
"chanteuse" is spelled C-H-A-N-T-E-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɑ̃.tøz\.
What does "chanteuse" mean?
As a noun, "chanteuse" means: Femme qui chante, qui module sa voix pour produire de la musique.
What words are commonly confused with "chanteuse"?
"chanteuse" is commonly confused with "chasseuse", "chartreuse", "chanteuses". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chanteuse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chanteuse" is \ʃɑ̃.tøz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chanteuse" come from?
"chanteuse" 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 "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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list