chicken
\ˈtʃɪk.ɪn\
The verdict
“chicken” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,666. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,666
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chicken · chicken · French
chicken · rank #26,666 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,666
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevron
Nearest frequency peer: chevron (-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 « chicken »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chambellan
chambellan
73,338 corpus weight
- chanteuses
chanteuses
73,337 corpus weight
- chevron
chevron
73,336 corpus weight
- chicken
chicken
73,335 corpus weight
- chief
chief
73,334 corpus weight
- Christmas
Christmas
73,333 corpus weight
What this shows « chicken » 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 | chicken |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtʃɪk.ɪn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chicken »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chicken (IPA \ˈtʃɪk.ɪn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,666 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chicken, with forms such as "cchicken", "chciken", and "chhicken". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "chien", "cricket", "chilien", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chicken, spelled C-H-I-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Poule.
- 2Poulet.
- 3Poule mouillée.
- 4Froussard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchicken
- chciken
- chhicken
- chiccken
- chicekn
- chickenn
- chickken
- chickne
- chikcen
- cihcken
- hcicken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chicken - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "chicken", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).