chignon
\ʃi.ɲɔ̃\
The verdict
“chignon” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,368
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de la coiffure des femmes que forment les cheveux relevés et noués par derrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chignon · chignon · French
chignon · rank #27,368 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,368
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiche
Nearest frequency peer: chiche (-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 « chignon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chevalerie
chevalerie
72,636 corpus weight
- chevreuil
chevreuil
72,635 corpus weight
- chiche
chiche
72,634 corpus weight
- chignon
chignon
72,633 corpus weight
- chip
chip
72,632 corpus weight
- cid
cid
72,631 corpus weight
What this shows « chignon » 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 | chignon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chignon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chignon (IPA \ʃi.ɲɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,368 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chignon, with forms such as "cchignon", "chginon", and "chhignon". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "chino", "Chinon", "chiron", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chignon, spelled C-H-I-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Partie de la coiffure des femmes que forment les cheveux relevés et noués par derrière.
- 2Le derrière du cou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chignon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle en riait encore de bon cœur, tandis que Pierre la regardait émerveillé, tant elle lui semblait rose et saine, sous le petit chapeau de feutre noir qu’une longue épingle d’argent fixait dans l’épais chignon.
Un nez long, un nez avide, plus gras que tout le visage, et des yeux… Je ne les ai vus qu’une fois, car ils regardaient d’habitude la terre et s’abritaient en outre sous un canotier de paille noire, trop petit pour le crâne de Voussard et posé en avant sur son front comme les chapeaux que portaient les femmes sous le second Empire, pendant la mode du chig…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchignon
- chginon
- chhignon
- chiggnon
- chignno
- chignnon
- chignonn
- chigonn
- chingon
- cihgnon
- hcignon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chignon - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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