Châtel
The verdict
“Châtel” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,465. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,465
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française située en Haute-Savoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatel · Châtel · French
Châtel · rank #34,465 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,465
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH circulait
Nearest frequency peer: circulait (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Châtel”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- chassant
chassant
65,539 corpus weight
- chihuahua
chihuahua
65,538 corpus weight
- Châtel
Châtel
65,536 corpus weight
- circulait
circulait
65,535 corpus weight
- cities
cities
65,534 corpus weight
- clonage
clonage
65,533 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Châtel” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Châtel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Châtel” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Châtel, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #34,465 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Châtel, with forms such as "cchâtel", "chatel", and "chhâtel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chute", "chats", "chatte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Châtel, spelled C-H-Â-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Commune française située en Haute-Savoie.
- 2Ancien nom de Châtel-sur-Moselle.
- 3Nom court de Châtel-Guyon, commune française du Puy-de-Dôme.
- 4Chef-lieu de la commune de Chatel-Chéhéry, dans le département des Ardennes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchâtel
- chatel
- chhâtel
- chtâel
- châetl
- châtell
- châtle
- châttel
- câhtel
- hcâtel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Châtel - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Châtel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.