chiennes
\ʃjɛn\
The verdict
“chiennes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,178. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,178
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiennes · chiennes · French
chiennes · rank #40,178 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,178
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevreuils
Nearest frequency peer: chevreuils (-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 « chiennes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Chelles
Chelles
59,826 corpus weight
- cherokee
cherokee
59,825 corpus weight
- chevreuils
chevreuils
59,824 corpus weight
- chiennes
chiennes
59,823 corpus weight
- choisissait
choisissait
59,822 corpus weight
- choral
choral
59,821 corpus weight
What this shows « chiennes » 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 | chiennes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃjɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chiennes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around chiennes (IPA \ʃjɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,178 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de chienne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for chiennes, with forms such as "cchiennes", "cheinnes", and "chhiennes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "chiens", "clientes", "chênes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chiennes, spelled C-H-I-E-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chiennes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois les voitures loin derrière, les deux chiennes d’Aurélie Thorel gambadent libres sur les sentiers de La Chapelle-des-Pots, plongeant même dans les cours d’eau.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchiennes
- cheinnes
- chhiennes
- chienens
- chienes
- chienness
- chiennse
- chinenes
- cihennes
- hciennes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chiennes - 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 "chiennes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).