chas
\ʃa\
The verdict
“chas” is uncommon French (frequency #52,564 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,564
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trou dans le haut (côté non pointu) d’une aiguille par lequel on passe le fil à coudre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chas · chas · French
chas · rank #52,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,564
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH champenoise
Nearest frequency peer: champenoise (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chablais
chablais
47,439 corpus weight
- champenoise
champenoise
47,438 corpus weight
- chas
chas
47,437 corpus weight
- chicha
chicha
47,436 corpus weight
- châtelaine
châtelaine
47,434 corpus weight
- chérubins
chérubins
47,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chas is uncommon French at frequency #52,564 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chas, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chas, spelled C-H-A-S.
Definition
- 1Trou dans le haut (côté non pointu) d’une aiguille par lequel on passe le fil à coudre.
- 2Sexe de la femme.
- 3Petite plaque de métal percée d’un trou par où passe le cordeau d'un fil à plomb de maçon.
- 4Nom donné, dans une grange ou un hangar, à la portion qui s’étend d’une poutre à l’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des aiguilles méritent une mention spéciale, elles sont d'une finesse extrême et percées d'un chas, il en est de la dimension d'aiguilles à canevas, leur nombre et leur perfection indique que la couture était en grand usage chez ce peuple primitif, […].
Mais le siège avait disparu. Escamoté par les soins du curé. Qui avait choisi ce jour-là, comme thème de son prêche, cette parole de l’Évangile : « Il est plus difficile à un riche d’entrer dans le royaume de Dieu qu’à un chameau de passer par le chas d’une aiguille. »
This word in other languages
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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