châtaignes
\ʃa.tɛɲ\
The verdict
“châtaignes” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,211. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,211
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de châtaigne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chataignes · châtaignes · French
châtaignes · rank #39,211 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,211
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chutent
Nearest frequency peer: chutent (-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 « châtaignes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charbons
charbons
60,793 corpus weight
- chicanes
chicanes
60,792 corpus weight
- chutent
chutent
60,791 corpus weight
- châtaignes
châtaignes
60,790 corpus weight
- circ
circ
60,788 corpus weight
- citait
citait
60,787 corpus weight
What this shows « châtaignes » 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 | châtaignes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.tɛɲ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #39,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « châtaignes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around châtaignes (IPA \ʃa.tɛɲ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,211 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de châtaigne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for châtaignes, with forms such as "cchâtaignes", "chataignes", and "chhâtaignes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "châtaignier", "châtaigne", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is châtaignes, spelled C-H-Â-T-A-I-G-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de châtaigne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how châtaignes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et si le flic-artiste, l’artiste-flic, gratte sous les châtaignes, adieu la paix de maman, la tranquillité de la famille, par sa faute à lui, le fils, lui, Pierre Gravona !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchâtaignes
- chataignes
- chhâtaignes
- chtâaignes
- châatignes
- châtagines
- châtaigens
- châtaiggnes
- châtaigness
- châtaignnes
- châtaignse
- châtainges
- châtiagnes
- châttaignes
- câhtaignes
- hcâtaignes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of châtaignes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).