Chaves
\ˈʃavɨʃ\
The verdict
“Chaves” is uncommon French (frequency #80,983 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,983
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaves, localité du Portugal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaves · Chaves · French
Chaves · rank #80,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,983
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chatoyant
Nearest frequency peer: chatoyant (-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 « Chaves »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charités
charités
19,021 corpus weight
- chatoyant
chatoyant
19,019 corpus weight
- Chaves
Chaves
19,018 corpus weight
- cheminant
cheminant
19,017 corpus weight
- Chesnais
Chesnais
19,016 corpus weight
- chiffonnier
chiffonnier
19,015 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chaves » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chaves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈʃavɨʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chaves » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chaves is uncommon French at frequency #80,983 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈʃavɨʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chaves, localité du Portugal.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Chaves in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Chaves, spelled C-H-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Chaves, localité du Portugal.
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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