Chevilly

name

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chevilly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Chevilly
PropertyValue
HeadwordChevilly
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#76,420
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Chevilly » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Chevillytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « chiendent » (#76,421), « chignons » (#76,422), « chasselas » (#76,417). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Chevilly » est au #76,420. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
  2. 2
    Nom court de Chevilly-Larue, commune française du Val-de-Marne.
  3. 3
    Commune du canton de Vaud en Suisse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Chevilly"?
"Chevilly" is spelled C-H-E-V-I-L-L-Y.
What does "Chevilly" mean?
As a proper noun, "Chevilly" means: Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
What language does "Chevilly" come from?
"Chevilly" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list