Chevreul
\ʃø.vʁœl\
The verdict
“Chevreul” is uncommon French (frequency #84,633 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,633
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom de la commune de Beni Aziz dans la wilaya de Sétif en Algérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chevreul · Chevreul · French
Chevreul · rank #84,633 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,633
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevaleresques
Nearest frequency peer: chevaleresques (-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 « Chevreul »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chauffagiste
chauffagiste
15,371 corpus weight
- chenet
chenet
15,370 corpus weight
- chevaleresq…
chevaleresques
15,369 corpus weight
- Chevreul
Chevreul
15,368 corpus weight
- chicots
chicots
15,367 corpus weight
- chromatine
chromatine
15,366 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chevreul » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chevreul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃø.vʁœl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chevreul » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chevreul is uncommon French at frequency #84,633 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃø.vʁœl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Chevreul doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Chevreul, spelled C-H-E-V-R-E-U-L.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de la commune de Beni Aziz dans la wilaya de Sétif en Algérie.
- 2Quartier de la ville de Lyon situé au sud de La Guillotière, autour de la rue du même nom.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chevreul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout commence, dès février, avec l’association de commerçants du quartier Chevreul.
Ainsi, sur le premier trimestre, deux nouveaux restaurants ouvriront leurs portes en succursale à Lyon, dans le quartier Chevreul et dans le vieux Lyon et une unité sera développé en franchise à Dijon.
Synonyms
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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