chèvrefeuille
\ʃɛ.vʁə.fœj\
The verdict
“chèvrefeuille” is uncommon French (frequency #65,788 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,788
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom usuel d’arbustes ou de lianes généralement grimpants, du genre Lonicera, de la famille des Caprifoliacées à feuilles caduques ou persistantes, à fleurs disposées en paires latérales ou en inflo...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chèvrefeuille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ.vʁə.fœj\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #65,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chèvrefeuille” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chèvrefeuille is uncommon French at frequency #65,788 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛ.vʁə.fœj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom usuel d’arbustes ou de lianes généralement grimpants, du genre Lonicera, de la famille des Caprifoliacées à feuilles caduques ou persistantes, à fleurs disposées en paires latérales ou en inflo...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chèvrefeuille in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chèvrefeuille, spelled C-H-È-V-R-E-F-E-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel d’arbustes ou de lianes généralement grimpants, du genre Lonicera, de la famille des Caprifoliacées à feuilles caduques ou persistantes, à fleurs disposées en paires latérales ou en inflorescences terminales et dont certaines espèces portent des fleurs odoriférantes. On s’en sert pour les berceaux de jardin et dans les palissades.
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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 “chèvrefeuille”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-È-V-R-E-F-E-U-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.