chanvrière
\ʃɑ̃.vʁi.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“chanvrière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Champ où l’on fait pousser du chanvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chanvriere · chanvrière · French
chanvrière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chanvrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃.vʁi.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
chanvrière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɑ̃.vʁi.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Champ où l’on fait pousser du chanvre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chanvrière, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chanvrière, spelled C-H-A-N-V-R-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Champ où l’on fait pousser du chanvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chanvrière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des brouillards fiévreux enveloppaient de petites métairies qu’on voyait de loin, perdues dans des chanvrières, sur le bord des canaux, et une humidité qui n’était plus celle de la mer me donnait le frisson, comme s’il eût fait très-froid.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.