chenil
\ʃə.ni(l)\
The verdict
“chenil” is uncommon French (frequency #50,115 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,115
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où logent les chiens de chasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chenil · chenil · French
chenil · rank #50,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,115
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charnu
Nearest frequency peer: charnu (-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 « chenil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cena
cena
49,889 corpus weight
- chalutier
chalutier
49,888 corpus weight
- charnu
charnu
49,887 corpus weight
- chenil
chenil
49,886 corpus weight
- chocolatier
chocolatier
49,885 corpus weight
- chop
chop
49,884 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chenil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chenil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.ni(l)\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chenil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chenil is uncommon French at frequency #50,115 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃə.ni(l)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chenil, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 chenil, spelled C-H-E-N-I-L.
Definition
- 1Lieu où logent les chiens de chasse.
- 2Logement fort sale et fort vilain.
- 3Établissement où on accueille les chiens.
- 4Établissement où on élève les chiens dans le but de les vendre.
- 5Tas de poussière obtenu quand on balaye.
- 6Tas de poussière obtenu quand on balaye.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chenil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chiens au chenil aboyèrent tous.
Mr. et Mrs. Joliffe, aussitôt sortis de la maison, s’étaient rendus, l’un au chenil, l’autre à l’étable des rennes.
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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