chevreau
\ʃə.vʁo\
The verdict
“chevreau” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,552
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit d’une chèvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chevreau · chevreau · French
chevreau · rank #49,552 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,552
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cheesecake
Nearest frequency peer: cheesecake (-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 « chevreau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charmée
charmée
50,452 corpus weight
- chassées
chassées
50,451 corpus weight
- cheesecake
cheesecake
50,450 corpus weight
- chevreau
chevreau
50,449 corpus weight
- choisirai
choisirai
50,448 corpus weight
- Chromecast
Chromecast
50,447 corpus weight
What this shows « chevreau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chevreau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.vʁo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chevreau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chevreau (IPA \ʃə.vʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,552 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chevreau, with forms such as "cchevreau", "cehvreau", and "cherveau". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "chèvres", "chèvre", "cheveu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chevreau, spelled C-H-E-V-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Petit d’une chèvre.
- 2Peau de chèvre ou de chevreau préparée.
- 3Viande de cet animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chevreau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi tous ceux qui vinrent serrer la main du jeune chef de parti, l’abbé de Gondi bondissait comme un chevreau. , 1826
Le visiteur songe avec tendresse au beau dessin que Navez, le meilleur élève du vieux David exilé à Bruxelles, fit autrefois du gracieux Louis, pareil à un enfant de bas-relief antique, serrant contre soi son chevreau familier…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchevreau
- cehvreau
- cherveau
- cheverau
- chevraeu
- chevreua
- chevrreau
- chevvreau
- chhevreau
- chvereau
- hcevreau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chevreau - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chevreau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).