chenin
\ʃə.nɛ̃\
The verdict
“chenin” is uncommon French (frequency #81,874 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,874
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage donnant de grosses grappes de petits raisins de couleur jaune d'or. En 2008 on en cultivait presque 10000 hectares en France, on le cultive aussi en Argentine, en Australie, aux USA, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chenin · chenin · French
chenin · rank #81,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,874
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chicot
Nearest frequency peer: chicot (+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 « chenin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chailly
Chailly
18,130 corpus weight
- charnus
charnus
18,129 corpus weight
- chenin
chenin
18,127 corpus weight
- chicot
chicot
18,126 corpus weight
- chiers
chiers
18,124 corpus weight
- Childéric
Childéric
18,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chenin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chenin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.nɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chenin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chenin is uncommon French at frequency #81,874 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃə.nɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cépage donnant de grosses grappes de petits raisins de couleur jaune d'or. En 2008 on en cultivait presque 10000 hectares en France, on le cultive aussi en Argentine, en Australie, aux USA, etc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chenin in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chenin, spelled C-H-E-N-I-N.
Definition
- 1Cépage donnant de grosses grappes de petits raisins de couleur jaune d'or. En 2008 on en cultivait presque 10000 hectares en France, on le cultive aussi en Argentine, en Australie, aux USA, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chenin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les grands vins blancs du val de Loire sont issus du chenin blanc, appelé aussi pineau de Loire
Le pineau d'Aunis est parfois nommé chenin noir
Synonyms
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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