Chatelier
\ʃa.tə.lje\
The verdict
“Chatelier” is uncommon French (frequency #90,535 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,535
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Neufchâtel, quartier de la ville de Québec ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatelier · Chatelier · French
Chatelier · rank #90,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,535
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chartrain
Nearest frequency peer: Chartrain (-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 « Chatelier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charolaise
charolaise
9,469 corpus weight
- charton
charton
9,468 corpus weight
- Chartrain
Chartrain
9,467 corpus weight
- Chatelier
Chatelier
9,466 corpus weight
- chauffantes
chauffantes
9,465 corpus weight
- cheerleading
cheerleading
9,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chatelier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chatelier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.tə.lje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chatelier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chatelier is uncommon French at frequency #90,535 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.tə.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant de Neufchâtel, quartier de la ville de Québec ^([1]).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Chatelier, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Chatelier, spelled C-H-A-T-E-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Neufchâtel, quartier de la ville de Québec ^([1]).
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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