Chatila
\ʃa.ti.la\
The verdict
“Chatila” is uncommon French (frequency #92,542 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,542
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Camp de réfugiés palestiniens à Beyrouth (Liban).
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatila · Chatila · French
Chatila · rank #92,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,542
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chavanne
Nearest frequency peer: Chavanne (+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 « Chatila »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charmilles
charmilles
7,464 corpus weight
- Chatila
Chatila
7,459 corpus weight
- Chavanne
Chavanne
7,458 corpus weight
- chew
chew
7,457 corpus weight
- choisissiez
choisissiez
7,455 corpus weight
- chuchotait
chuchotait
7,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chatila » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chatila |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ti.la\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chatila » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chatila is uncommon French at frequency #92,542 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃa.ti.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Camp de réfugiés palestiniens à Beyrouth (Liban).".
Chatila doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Chatila, spelled C-H-A-T-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1Camp de réfugiés palestiniens à Beyrouth (Liban).
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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