chevalet
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,339
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
chevalet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui sert aux artisans, dans différents métiers, à tenir l’ouvrage élevé ou baissé, pour travailler plus commodément. Pronounced \ʃə.va.lɛ\. Often confused with chevet and chevalier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chevalet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.va.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chevalet is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.va.lɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,339 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for chevalet, with forms such as "cchevalet", "cehvalet", and "cheavlet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "chevet", "chevalier", "Chevrolet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chevalet, spelled C-H-E-V-A-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui sert aux artisans, dans différents métiers, à tenir l’ouvrage élevé ou baissé, pour travailler plus commodément.
- 2Support amovible sur lequel le peintre pose et appuie le tableau auquel il travaille.
- 3Support servant à tenir élevées les cordes d’un instrument à cordes.
- 4Machine avec un rouleau pour passer les câbles d’un lieu à un autre.
- 5Instrument de supplice ou de torture sur un cheval de bois.
- 6Support sur lequel on pose ses lettres.
- 7Balisage en forme de croix couchée.
- 8Position de la main sur la table de billard.
- 9Support servant à soutenir une arme à feu.
- 10Support permettant le transport de marchandises de surfaces planes (panneaux de bois, vitres, panneaux en béton préfabriqué, ...).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchevalet,cehvalet,cheavlet,chevaelt,chevalett,chevallet,chevalte,chevlaet,chevvalet,chhevalet,chvealet,hcevalet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chevalet
Misspelling Variants of "chevalet"
Frequency rank: #32,339 in French
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