chelou
\ʃə.lu\
The verdict
“chelou” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,570. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,570
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bizarre, étrange, voire vraiment bizarre, très étrange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chelou · chelou · French
chelou · rank #16,570 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,570
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cherbourg
Nearest frequency peer: Cherbourg (+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 « chelou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CFDT
CFDT
83,434 corpus weight
- Charentes
Charentes
83,433 corpus weight
- chelou
chelou
83,431 corpus weight
- Cherbourg
Cherbourg
83,430 corpus weight
- choquée
choquée
83,429 corpus weight
- Coderre
Coderre
83,428 corpus weight
What this shows « chelou » 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 | chelou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃə.lu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chelou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around chelou (IPA \ʃə.lu\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,570 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bizarre, étrange, voire vraiment bizarre, très étrange.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for chelou, with forms such as "cchelou", "cehlou", and "chellou". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "chou", "clou", "Chloé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 chelou, spelled C-H-E-L-O-U.
Definition
- 1Bizarre, étrange, voire vraiment bizarre, très étrange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chelou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le questionnaire se composait de deux parties : les usages linguistiques d’une part, le rapport entre « parler chelou » et difficultés scolaires/d’apprentissage de l’autre.
Là, où ça devient franchement chelou c’est qu’au lieu de se faire renvoyer sur le trottoir à coups de pompe dans le boule, elle reste...
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchelou
- cehlou
- chellou
- cheluo
- cheolu
- chhelou
- chleou
- hcelou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chelou - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).