châtelains
\ʃɑ.tlɛ̃\
The verdict
“châtelains” is uncommon French (frequency #65,787 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,787
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de châtelain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatelains · châtelains · French
châtelains · rank #65,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,787
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chèvrefeuille
Nearest frequency peer: chèvrefeuille (+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 « châtelains »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chipote
chipote
34,218 corpus weight
- chocolatées
chocolatées
34,217 corpus weight
- châtelains
châtelains
34,214 corpus weight
- chèvrefeuil…
chèvrefeuille
34,213 corpus weight
- cidres
cidres
34,211 corpus weight
- cimenter
cimenter
34,210 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « châtelains » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | châtelains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ.tlɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « châtelains » en français
Rare enough to double-check
châtelains is uncommon French at frequency #65,787 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɑ.tlɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de châtelain.".
châtelains doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is châtelains, spelled C-H-Â-T-E-L-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de châtelain.
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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