chevet

\ʃə.vɛ\

/\ʃə.vɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“chevet” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,364. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,364
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tête de lit ou partie de la literie où l’on pose sa tête quand on est couché.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chevet · chevet · French

chevet · rank #11,364 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,364
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Chantal

Nearest frequency peer: Chantal (-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 « chevet »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chevet » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chevet vs crevé
50% similar
chevet vs crever
67% similar
chevet vs chèvre
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chevet
PropertyValue
Headwordchevet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃə.vɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,364
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chevet »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).chevetse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Chantal » (#11,363), « chantage » (#11,362), « chips » (#11,366). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chevet » est au #11,364. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around chevet (IPA \ʃə.vɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,364 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chevet, with forms such as "cchevet", "cehvet", and "cheevt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crevé", "crever", "chèvre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented 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 chevet, spelled C-H-E-V-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tête de lit ou partie de la literie où l’on pose sa tête quand on est couché.
  2. 2
    Ce dont on ne se sépare jamais (même la nuit), dont on peut se servir dans toutes les occasions.
  3. 3
    Partie qui termine le chœur d’une église : elle est souvent circulaire et plus élevée que le reste. Désigne parfois, plus spécifiquement, l’extérieur de cette partie du bâtiment.
  4. 4
    Table de chevet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chevet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il s’endort aussitôt qu’il a la tête sur le chevet.
  2. Il ne peut dormir, si le chevet n’est bien haut.

This word in other languages

head(English)cabezal(Español)Kopfende(Deutsch)criado-mudo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cchevet
  • cehvet
  • cheevt
  • chevett
  • chevte
  • chevvet
  • chhevet
  • chveet
  • hcevet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chevet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cchevet1cehvet2cheevt2chevett1chevte2chevvet1chhevet1chveet2
Edit distance from "chevet"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chevet"?
"chevet" is spelled C-H-E-V-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃə.vɛ\.
What does "chevet" mean?
As a noun, "chevet" means: Tête de lit ou partie de la literie où l’on pose sa tête quand on est couché.
What words are commonly confused with "chevet"?
"chevet" is commonly confused with "crevé", "crever", "chèvre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chevet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chevet" is \ʃə.vɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chevet" come from?
"chevet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chevet", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chalet#11,361chrome#11,367cerise#11,360buffet#11,356

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

comics9 variantsbasées9 variantsattendue9 variantsarmoire9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list