chaudière

\ʃo.djɛʁ\

/\ʃo.djɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“chaudière” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,655. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,655
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaudron.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chaudiere · chaudière · French

chaudière · rank #10,655 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,655
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH censés

Nearest frequency peer: censés (-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 « chaudière »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chaudière » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chaudière vs chaumière
89% similar
chaudière vs chaudières
90% similar
chaudière vs chaumières
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chaudière
PropertyValue
Headwordchaudière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃo.djɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#10,655
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chaudière »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).chaudièrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « censés » (#10,654), « chauffeurs » (#10,656), « catholicisme » (#10,653). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chaudière » est au #10,655. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around chaudière (IPA \ʃo.djɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,655 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for chaudière, with forms such as "cahudière", "cchaudière", and "chaduière". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "chaumière", "chaudières", "chaumières", and more, 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 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 chaudière, spelled C-H-A-U-D-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chaudron.
  2. 2
    Récipient clos, de cuivre, de tôle ou de fonte dans lequel l’eau se transforme en vapeur.
  3. 3
    Appareil qui produit de l'eau chaude ou de la vapeur dont la circulation permet notamment de faire fonctionner le chauffage central.
  4. 4
    Caudrette.
  5. 5
    Meuble représentant un chaudron.
  6. 6
    Coureur dopé.
  7. 7
    Seau.
  8. 8
    Chaudasse, femme qui paraît très portée sur le sexe.
  9. 9
    Marmite.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chaudière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une quarantaine de trappeurs et de guerriers comanches étaient disséminés çà et là, […], quelques-uns accroupis devant deux ou trois feux sur lesquels étaient suspendues des chaudières, où rôtissaient d’énormes quartiers de venaison, préparaient le repas de leurs compagnons.
  2. […] : au sortir des presses, le jus est immédiatement amené dans des chaudières à double fond, où l’on fait circuler un courant de vapeur qui le porte à la température de 75 à 80° ; […].

This word in other languages

boiler(English)Kessel(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahudière
  • cchaudière
  • chaduière
  • chauddière
  • chaudiere
  • chaudirèe
  • chaudièer
  • chaudièrre
  • chaudèire
  • chauidère
  • chhaudière
  • chuadière
  • hcaudière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chaudière - 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.

cahudière2cchaudière1chaduière2chauddière1chaudiere1chaudirèe2chaudièer2chaudièrre1
Edit distance from "chaudière"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chaudière"?
"chaudière" is spelled C-H-A-U-D-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃo.djɛʁ\.
What does "chaudière" mean?
As a noun, "chaudière" means: Chaudron.
What words are commonly confused with "chaudière"?
"chaudière" is commonly confused with "chaumière", "chaudières", "chaumières". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chaudière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chaudière" is \ʃo.djɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chaudière" come from?
"chaudière" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chaudière", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

boulanger#10,646congolais#10,671augmentée#10,636dictateur#10,685

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

chauffeurs13 variantsconcrète13 variantsalcoolique13 variantscyclisme13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list