Chemnitz

name

The verdict

“Chemnitz” is uncommon French (frequency #80,037 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,037
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Saxe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chemnitz · Chemnitz · French

Chemnitz · rank #80,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,037
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chamanique

Nearest frequency peer: chamanique (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « Chemnitz »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chemnitz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Chemnitz
PropertyValue
HeadwordChemnitz
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#80,037
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Chemnitz » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Chemnitztombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « chamanique » (#80,036), « Cheyennes » (#80,038), « chamallow » (#80,035). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Chemnitz » est au #80,037. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Chemnitz is uncommon French at frequency #80,037 among 8,609 “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

  1. 1
    Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Saxe.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Chemnitz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Avait-elle, ainsi que des malveillants le prétendirent, de lointaines accointances à la cour du roi de Saxe dont les bandes pouilleuses levées dans les faubourgs de Leipzick, de Chemnitz et de Dresde, occupèrent à poste fixe, dès le 18 septembre, l’espace compris entre Chelles et Claye, de la Marne à la route d’Allemagne ?

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Chemnitz"?
"Chemnitz" is spelled C-H-E-M-N-I-T-Z.
What does "Chemnitz" mean?
As a proper noun, "Chemnitz" means: Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Saxe.
What language does "Chemnitz" come from?
"Chemnitz" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Chemnitz", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list