cheptels
\ʃɛp.tɛl\
The verdict
“cheptels” is uncommon French (frequency #95,690 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,690
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cheptel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheptels · cheptels · French
cheptels · rank #95,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,690
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cheltenham
Nearest frequency peer: Cheltenham (-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 « cheptels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chautemps
chautemps
4,314 corpus weight
- chavisme
chavisme
4,313 corpus weight
- Cheltenham
Cheltenham
4,312 corpus weight
- cheptels
cheptels
4,311 corpus weight
- chicks
chicks
4,309 corpus weight
- chinoiseries
chinoiseries
4,308 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cheptels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheptels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛp.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cheptels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cheptels is uncommon French at frequency #95,690 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛp.tɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cheptel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cheptels in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cheptels, spelled C-H-E-P-T-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cheptel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cheptels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette question mariant sécurité et efficacité dans des élevages dont la taille va croissant tandis que la main d’œuvre, elle, se fait rare, est de plus en plus prégnante avec les nombreuses interventions qui émaillent la vie des cheptels, allaitants notamment : pour piquer, vacciner, trier, écorner, tondre, parer… il faut alloter, désalloter.
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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