chauffard
\ʃo.faʁ\
The verdict
“chauffard” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,337. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,337
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mauvais conducteur, personne dont le comportement au volant est dangereux. Souvent utilisé de manière injurieuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chauffard · chauffard · French
chauffard · rank #32,337 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,337
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chacal
Nearest frequency peer: chacal (-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 « chauffard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cendrier
cendrier
67,666 corpus weight
- chacal
chacal
67,665 corpus weight
- chauffard
chauffard
67,664 corpus weight
- cherchée
cherchée
67,663 corpus weight
- chevalet
chevalet
67,662 corpus weight
- chocolate
chocolate
67,661 corpus weight
What this shows « chauffard » 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 | chauffard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃo.faʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chauffard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around chauffard (IPA \ʃo.faʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,337 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mauvais conducteur, personne dont le comportement au volant est dangereux. Souvent utilisé de manière injurieuse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for chauffard, with forms such as "cahuffard", "cchauffard", and "chafufard". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "chauffer", "chauffage", "chauffant", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chauffard, spelled C-H-A-U-F-F-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Mauvais conducteur, personne dont le comportement au volant est dangereux. Souvent utilisé de manière injurieuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chauffard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chauffard qui a mortellement percuté une femme sur le parking d'un restaurant de Béziers (Hérault) dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche a été mis en examen pour assassinat et placé en détention provisoire
Et puis il paraît qu’on a tous failli mourir à cause d’un chauffard.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahuffard
- cchauffard
- chafufard
- chaufafrd
- chaufard
- chauffadr
- chauffardd
- chauffarrd
- chauffrad
- chhauffard
- chuaffard
- hcauffard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chauffard - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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