Chelles
\ʃɛl\
The verdict
“Chelles” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,175
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Oise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chelles · Chelles · French
Chelles · rank #40,175 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,175
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chauvet
Nearest frequency peer: Chauvet (-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 « Chelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charnel
charnel
59,829 corpus weight
- charnelle
charnelle
59,828 corpus weight
- Chauvet
Chauvet
59,827 corpus weight
- Chelles
Chelles
59,826 corpus weight
- cherokee
cherokee
59,825 corpus weight
- chevreuils
chevreuils
59,824 corpus weight
What this shows « Chelles » 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 | Chelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Chelles (IPA \ʃɛl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,175 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chelles, with forms such as "cchelles", "cehlles", and "chelels". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chères", "chênes", "colles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Chelles, spelled C-H-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Oise.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
- 3Canton français, situé dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait vu l’arrière-garde des fantassins ennemis rentrer à Chelles, criblée de boulets et d’obus, et criant : « Malheur ! malheur ! »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchelles
- cehlles
- chelels
- cheles
- chelless
- chellse
- chhelles
- chleles
- hcelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chelles - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).