chêne
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,356
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chêne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom usuel des représentants du genre Quercus, qui sont des arbres de la famille des Fagaceae (Fagacées), à feuilles souvent lobées. Pronounced \ʃɛn\. It ranks #8,356 in French word frequency. Often confused with CNE and chez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chêne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chêne is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,356 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for chêne, with forms such as "cchêne", "chene", and "chhêne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CNE", "chez", "cher", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chêne, spelled C-H-Ê-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel des représentants du genre Quercus, qui sont des arbres de la famille des Fagaceae (Fagacées), à feuilles souvent lobées.
- 2Sans précision,ou épithète, désigne généralement en France et en Europe de l'ouest le chêne pédonculé (Quercus robur), arbre pouvant atteindre 25 mètres de haut, parfois plus et vivre plusieurs siècles
- 3Rameau de chêne.
- 4Le bois de cet arbre travaillé.
- 5Meuble représentant l’arbre du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est représenté avec des feuilles et glands disproportionnés pour faciliter l’identification de l’espèce. Il se blasonne comme l’arbre. Il est dit englandé ou englanté quand ses glands sont d’un autre émail (il est à noter que fruité est tout aussi valable). À rapprocher de arbre, if, pin, pommier, sapin…
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchêne,chene,chhêne,chnêe,chêen,chênne,cêhne,hcêne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "chêne"
Frequency rank: #8,356 in French
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