chesne
The verdict
“chesne” is uncommon French (frequency #79,152 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,152
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de chêne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chesne · chesne · French
chesne · rank #79,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,152
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevreaux
Nearest frequency peer: chevreaux (+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 « chesne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Charybde
Charybde
20,852 corpus weight
- chasubles
chasubles
20,851 corpus weight
- chesne
chesne
20,849 corpus weight
- chevreaux
chevreaux
20,848 corpus weight
- Chibok
Chibok
20,847 corpus weight
- christologie
christologie
20,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chesne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chesne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chesne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chesne is uncommon French at frequency #79,152 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de chêne.".
chesne doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 chesne, spelled C-H-E-S-N-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de chêne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chesne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
bois de chesne.
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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