chiffres

\ʃifʁ\

/\ʃifʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « chiffres » 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).

chiffres vs coffres
75% similar
chiffres vs chimères
75% similar
chiffres vs coiffures
78% similar

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

Key facts for chiffres
PropertyValue
Headwordchiffres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃifʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,434
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chiffres »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).chiffresse 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 « chat » (#1,433), « coin » (#1,435), « café » (#1,432). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chiffres » est au #1,434. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pluriel de chiffre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

cchiffres1chfifres2chhiffres1chiffers2chiffress1chiffrres1chiffrse2chifres1
Edit distance from "chiffres"

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 "chiffres"?
"chiffres" is spelled C-H-I-F-F-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃifʁ\.
What does "chiffres" mean?
As a noun, "chiffres" means: Pluriel de chiffre.
What words are commonly confused with "chiffres"?
"chiffres" is commonly confused with "coffres", "chimères", "coiffures". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chiffres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chiffres" is \ʃifʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chiffres" come from?
"chiffres" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chiffres", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list