chiant
\ʃjɑ̃\
The verdict
“chiant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,112
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - voire Embêtant, exaspérant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiant · chiant · French
chiant · rank #5,112 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,112
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canapé
Nearest frequency peer: canapé (-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 « chiant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bébés
bébés
94,892 corpus weight
- Cameroun
Cameroun
94,891 corpus weight
- canapé
canapé
94,890 corpus weight
- chiant
chiant
94,889 corpus weight
- cimetière
cimetière
94,888 corpus weight
- comptait
comptait
94,887 corpus weight
What this shows « chiant » 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 | chiant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chiant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chiant (IPA \ʃjɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,112 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chiant, with forms such as "cchiant", "chaint", and "chhiant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chin", "chien", "China", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 chiant, spelled C-H-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1voire Embêtant, exaspérant.
- 2Pénible, dont l'attitude vis-à-vis des autres laisse à désirer.
- 3Ennuyant, sans fantaisie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chiant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Bon… » lâcha-t-il finalement. « T’es chiant par moments, mais t’es un bon artiste. Je dois reconnaître que ça valait le coup d’attendre. »
— C'est chiant que je ne me souvienne de rien ! Je suis frustrée que ma mémoire me fasse défaut. J'aurais pu me rappeler de Willy.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchiant
- chaint
- chhiant
- chiannt
- chiantt
- chiatn
- chinat
- cihant
- hciant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chiant - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chiant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).