Chaville
\ʃa.vil\
The verdict
“Chaville” is uncommon French (frequency #75,500 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,500
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Hauts-de-Seine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaville · Chaville · French
Chaville · rank #75,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,500
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chaumette
Nearest frequency peer: Chaumette (-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 « Chaville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chatbot
chatbot
24,504 corpus weight
- chaudronnier
chaudronnier
24,503 corpus weight
- Chaumette
Chaumette
24,502 corpus weight
- Chaville
Chaville
24,501 corpus weight
- chevauchées
chevauchées
24,499 corpus weight
- chevrotine
chevrotine
24,498 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chaville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chaville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.vil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chaville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chaville is uncommon French at frequency #75,500 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃa.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Hauts-de-Seine.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Chaville in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chaville, spelled C-H-A-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Hauts-de-Seine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chaville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Qu’est-ce qu’on fait, poupée jolie ? Cinéma ou bois de Chaville ? — Je préfère le cinéma, répondit Hélène. Au printemps, Chaville est dangereux.
Nous avions décidé, Jean et moi, d’aller faire du ski dans les bois de Chaville. Mais à 7 heures ce matin, quand j’ai ouvert ma fenêtre sur le jardin, la nuit était noire et blanche. J’ai entendu kshshshshsh… le dégel !
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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