chauffeur
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,217
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
chauffeur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui conduit un véhicule à moteur. Pronounced \ʃo.fœʁ\. It ranks #4,217 in French word frequency. Often confused with chauffeurs and chauffe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chauffeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃo.fœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chauffeur is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃo.fœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,217 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for chauffeur, with forms such as "cahuffeur", "cchauffeur", and "chafufeur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "chauffeurs", "chauffe", "chauffer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chauffeur, spelled C-H-A-U-F-F-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui conduit un véhicule à moteur.
- 2Celui qui conduit un véhicule automobile à des fins professionnelles.
- 3Personne qui chauffe, qui enthousiasme un public, une manifestation, une bande d’émeutiers, etc.
- 4Personne qui chauffe, qui enthousiasme un public, une manifestation, une bande d’émeutiers, etc.
- 5Brigand qui brûlait la plante des pieds de ses victimes pour leur faire avouer où ils cachaient leur argent, qui sévissait surtout dans les campagnes à la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle et au début du XIXᵉ siècle.
- 6Ouvrier qui était chargé d’entretenir le feu d’une forge, d’une machine à vapeur, d’une automobile à vapeur, etc.
- 7Appareil utilisé par les coiffeurs pour réaliser une mise en plis ou une permanente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahuffeur,cchauffeur,chafufeur,chaufefur,chaufeur,chaufferu,chauffeurr,chauffuer,chhauffeur,chuaffeur,hcauffeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chauffeur
Misspelling Variants of "chauffeur"
Frequency rank: #4,217 in French
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Nearby French words
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