chemin
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#735
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chemin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Voie, route pratiquée pour communiquer, pour aller d’un lieu à un autre. Pronounced \ʃə.mɛ̃\. It ranks #735 in French word frequency. Often confused with chen and chin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chemin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chemin is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.mɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #735 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for chemin, with forms such as "cchemin", "cehmin", and "cheimn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chen", "chin", "chéri", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chemin, spelled C-H-E-M-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Voie, route pratiquée pour communiquer, pour aller d’un lieu à un autre.
- 2Zone sur laquelle on circule, et que l’on suit pour garder sa direction, le plus souvent une zone en terre, plus ou moins aplatie, mais aussi n’importe quelle voie ou route avec une chaussée.
- 3Toute ligne ou voie qu’on parcourt, ou qu’on peut parcourir, pour aller d’un lieu à un autre.
- 4Bande de tapis posée au sol sur les marches d'un escalier ou dans un couloir.
- 5Tout parcours, tout déplacement suivi par un objet mobile.
- 6Parcours suivi par une personne dans un but donné.
- 7Suite d'événements (externes ou intérieurs) vécus par une personne.
- 8Suite d’arcs contigus orientés dans le même sens.
- 9Synonyme de chemin d’accès.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchemin,cehmin,cheimn,cheminn,chemmin,chemni,chhemin,chmein,hcemin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chemin
Misspelling Variants of "chemin"
Frequency rank: #735 in French
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