cheville

/\ʃə.vij\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,213

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

cheville is aFrenchnoun. It means: Morceau de bois ou de métal qu’on fait entrer dans un trou pour le boucher, pour faire des assemblages ou pour d’autres usages. Pronounced \ʃə.vij\. It ranks #8,213 in French word frequency. Often confused with cueille and chevilles.

Key facts for cheville
PropertyValue
Headwordcheville
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃə.vij\
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,213
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cheville in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cheville is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.vij\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,213 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cheville, with forms such as "ccheville", "cehville", and "cheivlle". 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, "cueille", "chevilles", "cédille", 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 cheville, spelled C-H-E-V-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Morceau de bois ou de métal qu’on fait entrer dans un trou pour le boucher, pour faire des assemblages ou pour d’autres usages.
  2. 2
    Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
  3. 3
    Unité de mesure du bois de charpente.
  4. 4
    Pièce, souvent en plastique que l’on enfonce dans un mur avant de fixer une vis.
  5. 5
    Principal mobile, du principal agent d’une affaire.
  6. 6
    Petit morceau de bois ou de métal qui, dans les instruments à cordes, servent à tendre ou à détendre les cordes.
  7. 7
    Articulation qui relie la jambe et le pied, formant une saillie osseuse.
  8. 8
    Apophyse osseuse qui supporte les cornes chez les animaux.
  9. 9
    Mots inutiles au vers que l’on rajoute pour obtenir le bon nombre de pieds ou la rime.
  10. 10
    Petit mot inventé permettant au verbicruciste de finir sa grille de mots-croisés.
  11. 11
    Industrie, activité du chevillard.
  12. 12
    Andouillers.
  13. 13
    Sorte de clé en bois utilisée dans les anciennes serrures.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccheville,cehville,cheivlle,chevile,chevilel,chevlile,chevville,chheville,chveille,hceville

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cheville

Misspelling Variants of "cheville"

ccheville9cehville8cheivlle8chevile7chevilel8chevlile8chevville9chheville9
Misspelling Variants of "cheville"

Frequency rank: #8,213 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cheville"?
"cheville" is spelled C-H-E-V-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃə.vij\.
What does "cheville" mean?
As a noun, "cheville" means: Morceau de bois ou de métal qu’on fait entrer dans un trou pour le boucher, pour faire des assemblages ou pour d’autres usages.
What words are commonly confused with "cheville"?
"cheville" is commonly confused with "cueille", "chevilles", "cédille". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cheville"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cheville" is \ʃə.vij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cheville" come from?
"cheville" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.