Chevilly
The verdict
“Chevilly” is uncommon French (frequency #76,420 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,420
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chevilly · Chevilly · French
Chevilly · rank #76,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,420
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiendent
Nearest frequency peer: chiendent (+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 « Chevilly »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chambray
Chambray
23,586 corpus weight
- chasselas
chasselas
23,584 corpus weight
- Chevilly
Chevilly
23,581 corpus weight
- chiendent
chiendent
23,580 corpus weight
- chignons
chignons
23,579 corpus weight
- chuchotement
chuchotement
23,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chevilly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chevilly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chevilly » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chevilly is uncommon French at frequency #76,420 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Chevilly in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Chevilly, spelled C-H-E-V-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
- 2Nom court de Chevilly-Larue, commune française du Val-de-Marne.
- 3Commune du canton de Vaud en Suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chevilly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’aide-soignante habite Chevilly, ville limitrophe, mais travaille à L’Haÿ-les-Roses.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).