Chavannes
\ʃa.van\
The verdict
“Chavannes” is uncommon French (frequency #53,198 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,198
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Cher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chavannes · Chavannes · French
Chavannes · rank #53,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,198
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevalière
Nearest frequency peer: chevalière (+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 « Chavannes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chandeleur
Chandeleur
46,806 corpus weight
- chapon
chapon
46,805 corpus weight
- Chavannes
Chavannes
46,803 corpus weight
- chevalière
chevalière
46,802 corpus weight
- chieur
chieur
46,800 corpus weight
- Chimène
Chimène
46,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chavannes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chavannes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.van\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chavannes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chavannes is uncommon French at frequency #53,198 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃa.van\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Chavannes in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Chavannes, spelled C-H-A-V-A-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Cher.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Drôme.
- 3hameau de la commune française de Crottet, située dans le département de l'Ain.
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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