chiesa
\ˈkjɛ.za\
The verdict
“chiesa” is uncommon French (frequency #62,854 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,854
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Église, lieu de culte dans la religion chrétienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiesa · chiesa · French
chiesa · rank #62,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,854
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevrette
Nearest frequency peer: chevrette (-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 « chiesa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cheerleader
cheerleader
37,150 corpus weight
- Chessy
Chessy
37,149 corpus weight
- chevrette
chevrette
37,148 corpus weight
- chiesa
chiesa
37,147 corpus weight
- christique
christique
37,145 corpus weight
- chubby
chubby
37,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chiesa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiesa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkjɛ.za\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chiesa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chiesa is uncommon French at frequency #62,854 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkjɛ.za\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Église, lieu de culte dans la religion chrétienne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chiesa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chiesa, spelled C-H-I-E-S-A.
Definition
- 1Église, lieu de culte dans la religion chrétienne.
Synonyms
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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