Cheyennes
\ʃɛ.jɛn\
The verdict
“Cheyennes” is uncommon French (frequency #80,038 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,038
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nation amérindienne des Grandes Plaines, proche alliée des Arapahos et généralement alliée des Lakotas (Sioux), dont le territoire est situé aux États-Unis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheyennes · Cheyennes · French
Cheyennes · rank #80,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,038
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chemnitz
Nearest frequency peer: Chemnitz (-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 « Cheyennes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chamallow
chamallow
19,966 corpus weight
- chamanique
chamanique
19,965 corpus weight
- Chemnitz
Chemnitz
19,964 corpus weight
- Cheyennes
Cheyennes
19,963 corpus weight
- choke
choke
19,962 corpus weight
- choyée
choyée
19,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cheyennes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cheyennes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ.jɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cheyennes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cheyennes is uncommon French at frequency #80,038 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛ.jɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nation amérindienne des Grandes Plaines, proche alliée des Arapahos et généralement alliée des Lakotas (Sioux), dont le territoire est situé aux États-Unis.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Cheyennes, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Cheyennes, spelled C-H-E-Y-E-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nation amérindienne des Grandes Plaines, proche alliée des Arapahos et généralement alliée des Lakotas (Sioux), dont le territoire est situé aux États-Unis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cheyennes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils ont échappé à mes ruses, mais ils n’échapperont pas aux Cheyennes.
Le tomahawk était la hache de guerre des Indiens, et les Apaches l’une des plus farouches nations indiennes qui, comme les Sioux ou les Cheyennes, furent victimes d’une effroyable épuration ethnique.
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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