chevelures
\ʃə.vlyʁ\
The verdict
“chevelures” is uncommon French (frequency #85,566 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,566
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chevelure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chevelures · chevelures · French
chevelures · rank #85,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,566
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevelus
Nearest frequency peer: chevelus (+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 « chevelures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chargerait
chargerait
14,439 corpus weight
- chevelures
chevelures
14,435 corpus weight
- chevelus
chevelus
14,434 corpus weight
- chinook
chinook
14,433 corpus weight
- chipmunks
chipmunks
14,432 corpus weight
- CHRU
CHRU
14,430 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chevelures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chevelures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.vlyʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chevelures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chevelures is uncommon French at frequency #85,566 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃə.vlyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chevelure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chevelures, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chevelures, spelled C-H-E-V-E-L-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chevelure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chevelures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tilleuls aux branches tourmentées s’égouttaient en pleurant avec des soupirs mous, leurs chevelures parallélépipédiques s’emmêlant de tronc en tronc.
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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