chienne

\ʃjɛn\

/\ʃjɛn\/ noun

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The verdict

“chienne” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,839. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,839
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal femelle de l’espèce Canis lupus familiaris.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chienne · chienne · French

chienne · rank #10,839 · 8 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,839
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cherchais

Nearest frequency peer: cherchais (-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 « chienne »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chienne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chienne vs chiens
71% similar
chienne vs chient
71% similar
chienne vs cliente
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chienne
PropertyValue
Headwordchienne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃjɛn\
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,839
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chienne »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).chiennese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cherchais » (#10,838), « chocs » (#10,840), « Charente » (#10,837). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chienne » est au #10,839. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around chienne (IPA \ʃjɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,839 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for chienne, with forms such as "cchienne", "cheinne", and "chhienne". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "chiens", "chient", "cliente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists 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 chienne, spelled C-H-I-E-N-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Animal femelle de l’espèce Canis lupus familiaris.
  2. 2
    En parlant des choses : très mauvais, exécrable.
  3. 3
    Femme au fort appétit sexuel ; femme délurée et lubrique.
  4. 4
    Cheveux formant une sorte de frange sur le front.
  5. 5
    Masse de glace qui, sur un cours d’eau, bloque les billots de bois que l’on veut faire transporter par le courant.
  6. 6
    Vêtement de travail souvent ignifuge.
  7. 7
    Grosse bouteille de bière, normalement de 40 oz (1,18 litres).
  8. 8
    Peur.
  9. 9
    Autre nom de la tiretoire, car cet outil mord le bois.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chienne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La reine mère se leva, prit la petite chienne par son collier et la retint, […].
  2. Or le bar était vide. Léon, à son comptoir dormassait, en chandail, tandis que sa chienne, près de lui, sur une chaise, veillait.

This word in other languages

bitch(English)perra(Español)Hündin(Deutsch)cadela(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cchienne
  • cheinne
  • chhienne
  • chiene
  • chienen
  • chinene
  • cihenne
  • hcienne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chienne - 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.

cchienne1cheinne2chhienne1chiene1chienen2chinene2cihenne2hcienne2
Edit distance from "chienne"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chienne"?
"chienne" is spelled C-H-I-E-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃjɛn\.
What does "chienne" mean?
As a noun, "chienne" means: Animal femelle de l’espèce Canis lupus familiaris.
What words are commonly confused with "chienne"?
"chienne" is commonly confused with "chiens", "chient", "cliente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chienne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chienne" is \ʃjɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chienne" come from?
"chienne" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chienne", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chèques#10,841bouquin#10,830allongé#10,820douanes#10,859

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

chocs8 variantsbrique8 variantsatouts8 variantsaimant8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list