chaumes
\ʃom\
The verdict
“chaumes” is uncommon French (frequency #56,485 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,485
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pâturages d’altitude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaumes · chaumes · French
chaumes · rank #56,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,485
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaudronnerie
Nearest frequency peer: chaudronnerie (-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 « chaumes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chatou
Chatou
43,518 corpus weight
- chaudronner…
chaudronnerie
43,517 corpus weight
- chaumes
chaumes
43,516 corpus weight
- chercheraie…
chercheraient
43,515 corpus weight
- chies
chies
43,514 corpus weight
- chieuse
chieuse
43,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chaumes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaumes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃom\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chaumes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chaumes is uncommon French at frequency #56,485 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pâturages d’altitude.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chaumes in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 chaumes, spelled C-H-A-U-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pâturages d’altitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chaumes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chaumes des Vosges sont recouvertes par un gazon composé du gaillet du Hartz, du serpolet, d’euphraises, de joncées et de graminées à feuillage menu, surtout des espèces des genres Luzule, Agrostide, Flouve, Fétuque et Nardus
Sur le flanc occidental, des sentiers commodes mais interminables conduisent au contraire, sans fatigue, à la limite des chaumes.
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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