châtaigniers
\ʃɑ.tɛ.ɲe\
The verdict
“châtaigniers” is uncommon French (frequency #51,959 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,959
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de châtaignier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chataigniers · châtaigniers · French
châtaigniers · rank #51,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,959
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chiapas
Nearest frequency peer: Chiapas (-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 « châtaigniers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Charolais
Charolais
48,045 corpus weight
- Chengdu
Chengdu
48,044 corpus weight
- Chiapas
Chiapas
48,043 corpus weight
- châtaigniers
châtaigniers
48,042 corpus weight
- Châteauguay
Châteauguay
48,041 corpus weight
- ciments
ciments
48,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « châtaigniers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | châtaigniers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ.tɛ.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « châtaigniers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
châtaigniers is uncommon French at frequency #51,959 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɑ.tɛ.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de châtaignier.".
Zero misspellings are on record for châtaigniers in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is châtaigniers, spelled C-H-Â-T-A-I-G-N-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de châtaignier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how châtaigniers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Née sous les châtaigniers de Faverges-de-la-Tour en Isère, cette maman chérie (disparue en 2019) a rencontré son papa, Louis, après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
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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