chevreuil
\ʃə.vʁœj\
The verdict
“chevreuil” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #27,366 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #27,366
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Une des espèces de cervidés, plus petits que les cerfs et dont la tête ressemble un peu à celle des chèvres.
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 | chevreuil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.vʁœj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chevreuil” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chevreuil is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.vʁœj\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,366 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for chevreuil, with forms such as "cchevreuil", "cehvreuil", and "cherveuil". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "chevreuse", "chevreuils", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chevreuil, spelled C-H-E-V-R-E-U-I-L.
Definition
- 1Une des espèces de cervidés, plus petits que les cerfs et dont la tête ressemble un peu à celle des chèvres.
- 2Viande de cet animal.
- 3Espèce de cervidés aussi connue sous le nom de cerf de Virginie, de nom scientifique Odocoileus virginianus
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se blasonne comme le cerf dont il se distingue par le fait qu'il ne porte que 2 cors et non une ramure. À rapprocher de biche, cerf, daim et élan.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchevreuil,cehvreuil,cherveuil,cheveruil,chevreiul,chevreuill,chevreuli,chevrreuil,chevrueil,chevvreuil,chhevreuil,chvereuil,hcevreuil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chevreuil - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “chevreuil”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-V-R-E-U-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃə.vʁœj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “chevreuse” - see the side-by-side comparison. chevreuil vs chevreuse
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.