Chassagne

name

The verdict

“Chassagne” is uncommon French (frequency #68,904 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,904
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Puy-de-Dôme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chassagne · Chassagne · French

Chassagne · rank #68,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,904
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH charnels

Nearest frequency peer: charnels (-2 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 « Chassagne »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chassagne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Chassagne
PropertyValue
HeadwordChassagne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters9
Frequency rank#68,904
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Chassagne » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Chassagnetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « charnels » (#68,902), « chercherons » (#68,906), « charlots » (#68,901). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Chassagne » est au #68,904. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Chassagne is uncommon French at frequency #68,904 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for Chassagne in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chassagne, spelled C-H-A-S-S-A-G-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département du Puy-de-Dôme.
  2. 2
    Lieu-dit de La Jarrie, commune française de Charente-Maritime.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Pour la liaison cyclable entre Puyvineux et le centre-bourg, le financement est acquis, ainsi que les dépôts des demandes de subventions pour une réalisation entre le hameau de Chassagne et La Jarrie.

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 "Chassagne"?
"Chassagne" is spelled C-H-A-S-S-A-G-N-E.
What does "Chassagne" mean?
As a proper noun, "Chassagne" means: Commune française, située dans le département du Puy-de-Dôme.
What language does "Chassagne" come from?
"Chassagne" 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 "Chassagne", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list