Chiapas
\ʃja.pas\
The verdict
“Chiapas” is uncommon French (frequency #51,958 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,958
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État du Mexique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiapas · Chiapas · French
Chiapas · rank #51,958 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,958
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chengdu
Nearest frequency peer: Chengdu (-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 « Chiapas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charnue
charnue
48,046 corpus weight
- Charolais
Charolais
48,045 corpus weight
- Chengdu
Chengdu
48,044 corpus weight
- Chiapas
Chiapas
48,043 corpus weight
- châtaigniers
châtaigniers
48,042 corpus weight
- Châteauguay
Châteauguay
48,041 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chiapas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chiapas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃja.pas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chiapas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chiapas is uncommon French at frequency #51,958 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃja.pas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État du Mexique.".
Chiapas has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Chiapas, spelled C-H-I-A-P-A-S.
Definition
- 1État du Mexique.
This word in other languages
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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