cheminées
\ʃə.mi.ne\
The verdict
“cheminées” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,957. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,957
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cheminée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheminees · cheminées · French
cheminées · rank #18,957 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,957
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chatons
Nearest frequency peer: chatons (-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 « cheminées »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cell
cell
81,047 corpus weight
- cerises
cerises
81,046 corpus weight
- chatons
chatons
81,045 corpus weight
- cheminées
cheminées
81,044 corpus weight
- choqués
choqués
81,043 corpus weight
- chum
chum
81,042 corpus weight
What this shows « cheminées » 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 | cheminées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cheminées »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around cheminées (IPA \ʃə.mi.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,957 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cheminée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cheminées, with forms such as "ccheminées", "cehminées", and "cheimnées". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "chemins", "chemises", "cheminer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cheminées, spelled C-H-E-M-I-N-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cheminée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cheminées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avez-vous inventé des corsets mécaniques ou des biberons, des pompes à incendie ou des pare-crottes, des cheminées qui ne consomment pas de bois, ou des fourneaux qui cuisent les côtelettes avec trois feuilles de papier ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccheminées
- cehminées
- cheimnées
- cheminees
- chemineés
- cheminnées
- cheminéess
- cheminése
- chemiénes
- chemminées
- chemniées
- chheminées
- chmeinées
- hceminées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cheminées - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).