chics
\ʃik\
The verdict
“chics” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,279. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,279
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chic.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chics · chics · French
chics · rank #29,279 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,279
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chicane
Nearest frequency peer: chicane (-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 « chics »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- changées
changées
70,725 corpus weight
- Chardonnay
Chardonnay
70,724 corpus weight
- chicane
chicane
70,723 corpus weight
- chics
chics
70,722 corpus weight
- choucroute
choucroute
70,721 corpus weight
- chow
chow
70,720 corpus weight
What this shows « chics » 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 | chics |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chics »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around chics (IPA \ʃik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,279 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de chic.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for chics, with forms such as "cchics", "chcis", and "chhics". 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, "Cris", "clic", "cils", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chics, spelled C-H-I-C-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chic.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchics
- chcis
- chhics
- chiccs
- chicss
- chisc
- cihcs
- hcics
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chics - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).