chauffes
\ʃof\
The verdict
“chauffes” is uncommon French (frequency #59,156 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,156
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chauffe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chauffes · chauffes · French
chauffes · rank #59,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,156
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chaix
Nearest frequency peer: Chaix (-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 « chauffes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CDF
CDF
40,848 corpus weight
- CED
CED
40,847 corpus weight
- Chaix
Chaix
40,846 corpus weight
- chauffes
chauffes
40,845 corpus weight
- chenu
chenu
40,843 corpus weight
- cherté
cherté
40,842 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chauffes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chauffes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃof\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chauffes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chauffes is uncommon French at frequency #59,156 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃof\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chauffe.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chauffes in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chauffes, spelled C-H-A-U-F-F-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chauffe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chauffes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les flegmes ainsi déséthérisés sont envoyés à la chaudière à rectifier, soit après filtration, soit directement, suivant le système suivi dans l’usine ; mais, dans tous les cas, ils sont débarrassés des éthers, qui constituent dans les chauffes de rectification ce qu’on appelle les goûts de tête, et qui sont des causes de coulage aux mauvais goûts et demi…
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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