Chemnitz
The verdict
“Chemnitz” is uncommon French (frequency #80,037 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,037
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Saxe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chemnitz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chemnitz” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Chemnitz is uncommon French at frequency #80,037 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Saxe.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Chemnitz in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Chemnitz, spelled C-H-E-M-N-I-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Saxe.
This word in other languages
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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Using “Chemnitz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-M-N-I-T-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.