chantier
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,825
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chantier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de bois qui sert de support, d’étai. Pronounced \ʃɑ̃.tje\. It ranks #3,825 in French word frequency. Often confused with chantre and charter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chantier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chantier is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɑ̃.tje\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,825 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for chantier, with forms such as "cahntier", "cchantier", and "chaniter". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chantre", "charter", "chapter", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chantier, spelled C-H-A-N-T-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de bois qui sert de support, d’étai.
- 2Pièce de bois qui sert de support, d’étai.
- 3Lieu où l’on range, où l’on entasse des piles de gros bois, à brûler, de charpente ou de charronnage.
- 4Lieu où l’on travaille le bois ou la pierre afin de pouvoir les employer à un bâtiment.
- 5Lieu où l’on travaille le bois ou la pierre afin de pouvoir les employer à un bâtiment.
- 6Lieu où l’on travaille le bois ou la pierre afin de pouvoir les employer à un bâtiment.
- 7Lieu dans une mine où s’effectue l’extraction de matériaux.
- 8Lieu où s'effectue le travail des charbonniers.
- 9Travail.
- 10Désordre, bordel.
- 11Procédure judiciaire frauduleuse, construite de toutes pièces, ayant pour but de mettre en cause un innocent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahntier,cchantier,chaniter,channtier,chanteir,chantierr,chantire,chanttier,chatnier,chhantier,chnatier,hcantier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chantier
Misspelling Variants of "chantier"
Frequency rank: #3,825 in French
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