Châteaudun
\ʃa.to.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“Châteaudun” is uncommon French (frequency #55,142 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,142
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune située dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chateaudun · Châteaudun · French
Châteaudun · rank #55,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,142
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chétif
Nearest frequency peer: chétif (+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 « Châteaudun »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- choisirent
choisirent
44,862 corpus weight
- chouiner
chouiner
44,861 corpus weight
- Châteaudun
Châteaudun
44,859 corpus weight
- chétif
chétif
44,858 corpus weight
- cintrée
cintrée
44,857 corpus weight
- circonspect…
circonspection
44,856 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Châteaudun » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Châteaudun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.to.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Châteaudun » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Châteaudun is uncommon French at frequency #55,142 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃa.to.dɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Châteaudun has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Châteaudun, spelled C-H-Â-T-E-A-U-D-U-N.
Definition
- 1Commune située dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir, en France.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Châteaudun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Prussiens ne viennent pas de notre côté. Ils vont tuer et brûler ailleurs, on appelle cela de bonnes nouvelles ! Châteaudun est leur proie d’aujourd’hui, et il paraît que nous ne pouvons rien empêcher.
Il employait maintenant les raclures de routes, les curures de fossés, les cendres et les escarbilles de fourneaux, surtout les déchets de laine, dont il avait acheté le balayage dans une draperie de Châteaudun.
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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