Chevilly
The verdict
“Chevilly” is uncommon French (frequency #76,420 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,420
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
| 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) |
Where “Chevilly” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Chevilly is uncommon French at frequency #76,420 among 257,141 “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.
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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Using “Chevilly”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-V-I-L-L-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.