chenet
\ʃə.nɛ\
The verdict
“chenet” is uncommon French (frequency #84,631 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,631
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ustensile, au nombre de deux par cheminée, servant à maintenir le bois en hauteur dans le foyer pour en activer la combustion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chenet · chenet · French
chenet · rank #84,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,631
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chauffagiste
Nearest frequency peer: chauffagiste (-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 « chenet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chanut
Chanut
15,373 corpus weight
- charpenterie
charpenterie
15,372 corpus weight
- chauffagiste
chauffagiste
15,371 corpus weight
- chenet
chenet
15,370 corpus weight
- chevaleresq…
chevaleresques
15,369 corpus weight
- Chevreul
Chevreul
15,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chenet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chenet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chenet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chenet is uncommon French at frequency #84,631 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃə.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chenet, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chenet, spelled C-H-E-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Ustensile, au nombre de deux par cheminée, servant à maintenir le bois en hauteur dans le foyer pour en activer la combustion.
- 2Machine de fer qui sert à donner le pli aux bordages que l’on chauffe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chenet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le garde-cendre, les chenets, les pelles, les pincettes, tout était du plus grand prix.
De gros monticules de cendres encombraient la cheminée et portaient le brasier à un empan plus haut que la tête des chenets.
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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