chefferies
\ʃɛf.ʁi\
The verdict
“chefferies” is uncommon French (frequency #72,170 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,170
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chefferie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chefferies · chefferies · French
chefferies · rank #72,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,170
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chavigny
Nearest frequency peer: Chavigny (-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 « chefferies »
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 « chefferies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chefferies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛf.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chefferies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chefferies is uncommon French at frequency #72,170 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛf.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chefferie.".
chefferies has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chefferies, spelled C-H-E-F-F-E-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chefferie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chefferies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vais désauxiliariser et viabiliser les chefferies.
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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