chiffrement

/\ʃi.fʁə.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#22,513

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chiffrement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Procédé utilisé en cryptographie permettant de protéger un document en le rendant incompréhensible à toute personne ne possédant pas la clé. Pronounced \ʃi.fʁə.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for chiffrement
PropertyValue
Headwordchiffrement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃi.fʁə.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#22,513
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chiffrement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chiffrement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃi.fʁə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,513 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Procédé utilisé en cryptographie permettant de protéger un document en le rendant incompréhensible à toute personne ne possédant pas la clé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for chiffrement, with forms such as "cchiffrement", "chfifrement", and "chhiffrement". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chiffrement, spelled C-H-I-F-F-R-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Procédé utilisé en cryptographie permettant de protéger un document en le rendant incompréhensible à toute personne ne possédant pas la clé.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cchiffrement,chfifrement,chhiffrement,chifferment,chiffreemnt,chiffremennt,chiffrementt,chiffremetn,chiffremment,chiffremnet,chiffrmeent,chiffrrement,chifrement,chifrfement,cihffrement,hciffrement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chiffrement

Misspelling Variants of "chiffrement"

cchiffrement12chfifrement11chhiffrement12chifferment11chiffreemnt11chiffremennt12chiffrementt12chiffremetn11
Misspelling Variants of "chiffrement"

Frequency rank: #22,513 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chiffrement"?
"chiffrement" is spelled C-H-I-F-F-R-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃi.fʁə.mɑ̃\.
What does "chiffrement" mean?
As a noun, "chiffrement" means: Procédé utilisé en cryptographie permettant de protéger un document en le rendant incompréhensible à toute personne ne possédant pas la clé.
What are common misspellings of "chiffrement"?
Common misspellings include "cchiffrement", "chfifrement", "chhiffrement", "chifferment", "chiffreemnt". The correct spelling is "chiffrement".
How do you pronounce "chiffrement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chiffrement" is \ʃi.fʁə.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chiffrement" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.