chastain
\ʃɑ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“chastain” is uncommon French (frequency #71,348 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,348
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de châtain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chastain · chastain · French
chastain · rank #71,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,348
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chamboulement
Nearest frequency peer: chamboulement (-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 « chastain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cerceaux
cerceaux
28,656 corpus weight
- cervin
cervin
28,655 corpus weight
- chambouleme…
chamboulement
28,654 corpus weight
- chastain
chastain
28,653 corpus weight
- Chaucer
Chaucer
28,652 corpus weight
- chenapan
chenapan
28,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chastain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chastain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃɑ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chastain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chastain is uncommon French at frequency #71,348 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃɑ.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de châtain.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chastain in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chastain, spelled C-H-A-S-T-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Variante de châtain.
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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