cheminer
\ʃə.mi.ne\
The verdict
“cheminer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,366. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,366
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marcher, aller, faire du chemin pour arriver quelque part.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheminer · cheminer · French
cheminer · rank #44,366 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,366
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chargez
Nearest frequency peer: chargez (-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 « cheminer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chaotiques
chaotiques
55,638 corpus weight
- charbonnages
charbonnages
55,637 corpus weight
- chargez
chargez
55,636 corpus weight
- cheminer
cheminer
55,635 corpus weight
- chevronné
chevronné
55,634 corpus weight
- châtaigne
châtaigne
55,632 corpus weight
What this shows « cheminer » 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 | cheminer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃə.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cheminer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cheminer (IPA \ʃə.mi.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,366 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cheminer, with forms such as "ccheminer", "cehminer", and "cheimner". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "chemins", "chemise", "chemises", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cheminer, spelled C-H-E-M-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Marcher, aller, faire du chemin pour arriver quelque part.
- 2Faire son chemin, progresser.
- 3Avoir un parcours de réflexion et d'expériences pouvant mener vers une conversion.
- 4Pousser en avant les travaux d’attaque contre une place assiégée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cheminer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les traîneaux cheminaient paisiblement et facilement.
Ils cheminaient donc en silence et ils allaient traverser la chaussée pour remonter le côté gauche du boulevard Malesherbes, lorsque le financier s'arrêta.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccheminer
- cehminer
- cheimner
- chemienr
- cheminerr
- cheminner
- cheminre
- chemminer
- chemnier
- chheminer
- chmeiner
- hceminer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cheminer - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).