chantier

\ʃɑ̃.tje\

/\ʃɑ̃.tje\/ noun

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The verdict

“chantier” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,825. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,825
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de bois qui sert de support, d’étai.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chantier · chantier · French

chantier · rank #3,825 · 12 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,825
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cellule

Nearest frequency peer: cellule (-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 « chantier »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « chantier » 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).

chantier vs chantre
75% similar
chantier vs charter
75% similar
chantier vs chapter
75% similar

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

Key facts for chantier
PropertyValue
Headwordchantier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɑ̃.tje\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,825
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chantier »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.chantierse 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 « cellule » (#3,824), « chapelle » (#3,826), « carbone » (#3,823). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chantier » est au #3,825. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around chantier (IPA \ʃɑ̃.tje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,825 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for chantier, with forms such as "cahntier", "cchantier", and "chaniter". 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 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 chantier, spelled C-H-A-N-T-I-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce de bois qui sert de support, d’étai.
  2. 2
    Pièce de bois qui sert de support, d’étai.
  3. 3
    Lieu où l’on range, où l’on entasse des piles de gros bois, à brûler, de charpente ou de charronnage.
  4. 4
    Lieu où l’on travaille le bois ou la pierre afin de pouvoir les employer à un bâtiment.
  5. 5
    Lieu où l’on travaille le bois ou la pierre afin de pouvoir les employer à un bâtiment.
  6. 6
    Lieu où l’on travaille le bois ou la pierre afin de pouvoir les employer à un bâtiment.
  7. 7
    Lieu dans une mine où s’effectue l’extraction de matériaux.
  8. 8
    Lieu où s'effectue le travail des charbonniers.
  9. 9
    Travail.
  10. 10
    Désordre, bordel.
  11. 11
    Procédure judiciaire frauduleuse, construite de toutes pièces, ayant pour but de mettre en cause un innocent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un tonneau, dont le robinet, ouvert à moitié, continuait de laisser échapper un filet de vin, lequel, en coulant, formait une rigole qui allait se perdre sous le chantier.
  2. Mettre une pierre, une pièce de bois en chantier.

This word in other languages

lumber yard(English)cantera(Español)Lager(Deutsch)canteiro(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahntier
  • cchantier
  • chaniter
  • channtier
  • chanteir
  • chantierr
  • chantire
  • chanttier
  • chatnier
  • chhantier
  • chnatier
  • hcantier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

cahntier2cchantier1chaniter2channtier1chanteir2chantierr1chantire2chanttier1
Edit distance from "chantier"

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 "chantier"?
"chantier" is spelled C-H-A-N-T-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɑ̃.tje\.
What does "chantier" mean?
As a noun, "chantier" means: Pièce de bois qui sert de support, d’étai.
What words are commonly confused with "chantier"?
"chantier" is commonly confused with "chantre", "charter", "chapter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chantier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chantier" is \ʃɑ̃.tje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chantier" come from?
"chantier" 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 "chantier", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chapelle#3,826chinoise#3,827autorisé#3,821comparer#3,830

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

entraîne12 variantsfamiliale12 variantsfédérale12 variantsréponds12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list