chevelu
\ʃəv.ly\
The verdict
“chevelu” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,004. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,004
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui porte des cheveux longs et touffus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chevelu · chevelu · French
chevelu · rank #27,004 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,004
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charmer
Nearest frequency peer: charmer (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chevelu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- changerai
changerai
73,000 corpus weight
- Charly
Charly
72,999 corpus weight
- charmer
charmer
72,998 corpus weight
- chevelu
chevelu
72,997 corpus weight
- choisisse
choisisse
72,996 corpus weight
- clarisse
clarisse
72,995 corpus weight
What this shows « chevelu » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chevelu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃəv.ly\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chevelu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around chevelu (IPA \ʃəv.ly\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,004 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for chevelu, with forms such as "cchevelu", "cehvelu", and "cheevlu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "chevet", "cheveu", "cheveux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chevelu, spelled C-H-E-V-E-L-U.
Definition
- 1Qui porte des cheveux longs et touffus.
- 2Qui est garni de cheveux.
- 3Qui est garni de poils
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chevelu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les rois chevelus.
De même qu’au soleil l’horrible essaim des mouches Des taureaux égorgés couvre les cuirs velus, Un tourbillon guerrier de peuples chevelus, Hors des nefs, s’épaissit, plein de clameurs farouches.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchevelu
- cehvelu
- cheevlu
- chevellu
- cheveul
- chevleu
- chevvelu
- chhevelu
- chveelu
- hcevelu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chevelu - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).