chauve
\ʃov\
The verdict
“chauve” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,355. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,355
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’a plus de cheveux, ou n’en a guère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chauve · chauve · French
chauve · rank #8,355 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,355
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chauffer
Nearest frequency peer: chauffer (-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 « chauve »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Catalogne
Catalogne
91,649 corpus weight
- chanté
chanté
91,648 corpus weight
- chauffer
chauffer
91,647 corpus weight
- chauve
chauve
91,646 corpus weight
- chêne
chêne
91,645 corpus weight
- chœur
chœur
91,644 corpus weight
What this shows « chauve » 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 | chauve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃov\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chauve »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around chauve (IPA \ʃov\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,355 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui n’a plus de cheveux, ou n’en a guère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for chauve, with forms such as "cahuve", "cchauve", and "chauev". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cuve", "chute", "chaux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chauve, spelled C-H-A-U-V-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’a plus de cheveux, ou n’en a guère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chauve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il releva ses lunettes d’acier sur son front totalement chauve et ses yeux papillotèrent.
À l'encontre de ce qui se voit en Europe, les hommes sont rarement chauves, et les femmes le sont fréquemment.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahuve
- cchauve
- chauev
- chauvve
- chavue
- chhauve
- chuave
- hcauve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chauve - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chauve", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).