Chemnitz
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
- chamallow
chamallow
19,966 corpus weight
- chamanique
chamanique
19,965 corpus weight
- Chemnitz
Chemnitz
19,964 corpus weight
- Cheyennes
Cheyennes
19,963 corpus weight
- choke
choke
19,962 corpus weight
- choyée
choyée
19,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chemnitz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chemnitz » en français
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
- 1Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Saxe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chemnitz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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