chelem
\ʃlɛm\
The verdict
“chelem” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,989. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,989
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Annonce par le preneur qu’il compte réaliser toutes les levées d’une partie (grand chelem) ou toutes moins une (petit chelem).
Corpus desk
Index FR-chelem · chelem · French
chelem · rank #13,989 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,989
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carnets
Nearest frequency peer: carnets (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chelem »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cadence
cadence
86,015 corpus weight
- calmement
calmement
86,014 corpus weight
- carnets
carnets
86,013 corpus weight
- chelem
chelem
86,012 corpus weight
- chialer
chialer
86,011 corpus weight
- Cleveland
Cleveland
86,010 corpus weight
What this shows « chelem » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chelem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃlɛm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chelem »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chelem (IPA \ʃlɛm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,989 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chelem, with forms such as "cchelem", "cehlem", and "cheelm". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Clem", "chère", "chêne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chelem, spelled C-H-E-L-E-M.
Definition
- 1Annonce par le preneur qu’il compte réaliser toutes les levées d’une partie (grand chelem) ou toutes moins une (petit chelem).
- 2Action de remporter toutes les victoires d’une compétition sportive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chelem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y est allé avec le "petit" septième, les quatre rois et trois dames mais on avait préparé la donne pour qu’il subisse un chelem mémorable.
Employé adjectivement dans les expressions: Être chelem, faire chelem: ne pas faire un seul pli.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchelem
- cehlem
- cheelm
- chelemm
- chellem
- chelme
- chhelem
- chleem
- hcelem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chelem - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).