chasteté

\ʃas.tə.te\

/\ʃas.tə.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“chasteté” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,726
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de celui qui s’abstient en amour de tout plaisir illicite.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chastete · chasteté · French

chasteté · rank #27,726 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,726
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH charmantes

Nearest frequency peer: charmantes (-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 « chasteté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chasteté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chasteté vs chatte
63% similar
chasteté vs chaste
75% similar
chasteté vs chantée
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chasteté
PropertyValue
Headwordchasteté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃas.tə.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#27,726
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chasteté »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).chastetése place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « charmantes » (#27,725), « chauvin » (#27,727), « charleston » (#27,724). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chasteté » est au #27,726. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around chasteté (IPA \ʃas.tə.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,726 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for chasteté, with forms such as "cahsteté", "cchasteté", and "chasetté". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "chatte", "chaste", "chantée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chasteté, spelled C-H-A-S-T-E-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de celui qui s’abstient en amour de tout plaisir illicite.
  2. 2
    Image de pureté des choses.
  3. 3
    Entière abstinence des plaisirs de l’amour.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Beaucoup plus connue est la généralisation de la castration dans le monde arabe, par l'intermédiaire des eunuques de harem, ces « gardiens du lit » au sens littéral du mot, à qui revenait la responsabilité de la chasteté des femmes du sultan.
  2. La luxure n’est pas une luxation. C’est cependant une entorse à la chasteté.

This word in other languages

chastity(English)castidad(Español)Keuschheit(Deutsch)castidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahsteté
  • cchasteté
  • chasetté
  • chassteté
  • chastete
  • chastetté
  • chasteét
  • chastteté
  • chastteé
  • chatseté
  • chhasteté
  • chsateté
  • hcasteté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chasteté - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cahsteté2cchasteté1chasetté2chassteté1chastete1chastetté1chasteét2chastteté1
Edit distance from "chasteté"

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 "chasteté"?
"chasteté" is spelled C-H-A-S-T-E-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃas.tə.te\.
What does "chasteté" mean?
As a noun, "chasteté" means: État de celui qui s’abstient en amour de tout plaisir illicite.
What words are commonly confused with "chasteté"?
"chasteté" is commonly confused with "chatte", "chaste", "chantée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chasteté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chasteté" is \ʃas.tə.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chasteté" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chasteté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chandail#27,723concéder#27,743auberges#27,703armature#27,696

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

certifiée13 variantscollisions13 variantscaptation13 variantscommandait13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list