châtiment
\ʃɑ.ti.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“châtiment” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,632
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peine infligée en vue de corriger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatiment · châtiment · French
châtiment · rank #14,632 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,632
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chen
Nearest frequency peer: chen (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « châtiment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- channel
channel
85,372 corpus weight
- charpente
charpente
85,371 corpus weight
- chen
chen
85,370 corpus weight
- châtiment
châtiment
85,369 corpus weight
- cicatrices
cicatrices
85,368 corpus weight
- Claudia
Claudia
85,367 corpus weight
What this shows « châtiment » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | châtiment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ.ti.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « châtiment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around châtiment (IPA \ʃɑ.ti.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,632 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Peine infligée en vue de corriger.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for châtiment, with forms such as "cchâtiment", "chatiment", and "chhâtiment". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "châtiments", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 châtiment, spelled C-H-Â-T-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Peine infligée en vue de corriger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how châtiment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'attitude de la théologie chrétienne à l'égard des juifs a été fixée dans le début du IVᵉ siècle (concile de Nicée, 325) : le judaïsme ne doit pas se faire connaitre, il doit vivre, mais dans un état d'avilissement et de misère tel qu'il fasse nettement apparaître aux yeux des croyants comme des incroyants le châtiment infligé par Dieu à ceux qui n'ont p…
Quant à moi, […], je souhaiterais que des châtiments vraiment effrayants frappassent ceux qui, médecins ou matrones, pour de l'argent, se font les instruments de tels crimes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchâtiment
- chatiment
- chhâtiment
- chtâiment
- châitment
- châtiemnt
- châtimennt
- châtimentt
- châtimetn
- châtimment
- châtimnet
- châtmient
- châttiment
- câhtiment
- hcâtiment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of châtiment - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).