chase
\tʃeɪs\
The verdict
“chase” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,831. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,831
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poursuite, suite, chasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chase · chase · French
chase · rank #15,831 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,831
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cheminement
Nearest frequency peer: cheminement (+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 « chase »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cavité
cavité
84,173 corpus weight
- centrée
centrée
84,172 corpus weight
- chase
chase
84,170 corpus weight
- cheminement
cheminement
84,169 corpus weight
- cheveu
cheveu
84,168 corpus weight
- choisissant
choisissant
84,167 corpus weight
What this shows « chase » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃeɪs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chase »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around chase (IPA \tʃeɪs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,831 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Poursuite, suite, chasse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for chase, with forms such as "cahse", "cchase", and "chaes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "che", "chat", "chie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 chase, spelled C-H-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Poursuite, suite, chasse.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahse
- cchase
- chaes
- chhase
- chsae
- hcase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chase - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).