chevelus
\ʃəv.ly\
The verdict
“chevelus” is uncommon French (frequency #85,567 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,567
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de chevelu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chevelus · chevelus · French
chevelus · rank #85,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,567
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevelures
Nearest frequency peer: chevelures (-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 « chevelus »
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 « chevelus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chevelus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃəv.ly\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chevelus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chevelus is uncommon French at frequency #85,567 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃəv.ly\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de chevelu.".
chevelus has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is chevelus, spelled C-H-E-V-E-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de chevelu.
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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