chiffres
\ʃifʁ\
The verdict
“chiffres” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,434. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,434
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chiffre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chiffres · chiffres · French
chiffres · rank #1,434 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,434
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chat
Nearest frequency peer: chat (-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 « chiffres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bruxelles
Bruxelles
98,570 corpus weight
- café
café
98,569 corpus weight
- chat
chat
98,568 corpus weight
- chiffres
chiffres
98,567 corpus weight
- coin
coin
98,566 corpus weight
- couleurs
couleurs
98,565 corpus weight
What this shows « chiffres » 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 | chiffres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃifʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chiffres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chiffres (IPA \ʃifʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,434 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de chiffre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chiffres, with forms such as "cchiffres", "chfifres", and "chhiffres". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "coffres", "chimères", "coiffures", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chiffres, spelled C-H-I-F-F-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chiffre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chiffres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En somme, ces chiffres ne donnent pas une idée exacte de la situation par le fait de la présence d’une population slave ou slavonisée, c’est-à-dire que des contrées purement lithuaniennes sont en meilleure posture qu’on ne le croirait d’après les chiffres totaux de la statistique russe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchiffres
- chfifres
- chhiffres
- chiffers
- chiffress
- chiffrres
- chiffrse
- chifres
- chifrfes
- cihffres
- hciffres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chiffres - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).