Chavigny
\ʃa.vi.ɲi\
The verdict
“Chavigny” is uncommon French (frequency #72,169 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,169
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chavigny · Chavigny · French
Chavigny · rank #72,169 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,169
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charognes
Nearest frequency peer: charognes (-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 « Chavigny »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chambertin
chambertin
27,835 corpus weight
- chaput
chaput
27,834 corpus weight
- charognes
charognes
27,833 corpus weight
- Chavigny
Chavigny
27,832 corpus weight
- chefferies
chefferies
27,831 corpus weight
- Cherki
Cherki
27,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chavigny » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chavigny |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.vi.ɲi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chavigny » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chavigny is uncommon French at frequency #72,169 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃa.vi.ɲi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Chavigny in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Chavigny, spelled C-H-A-V-I-G-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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