chihuahua
\ʃi.wa.wa\
The verdict
“chihuahua” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,463
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Race de très petit chien de compagnie, originaire du Mexique, le chien le plus petit du monde, à poil court ou à poil long.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chihuahua · chihuahua · French
chihuahua · rank #34,463 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,463
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH chassant
Nearest frequency peer: chassant (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “chihuahua”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- celtiques
celtiques
65,541 corpus weight
- chantez
chantez
65,540 corpus weight
- chassant
chassant
65,539 corpus weight
- chihuahua
chihuahua
65,538 corpus weight
- Châtel
Châtel
65,536 corpus weight
- circulait
circulait
65,535 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “chihuahua” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chihuahua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.wa.wa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chihuahua” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around chihuahua (IPA \ʃi.wa.wa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,463 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for chihuahua, with forms such as "cchihuahua", "chhihuahua", and "chhiuahua". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chihuahua, spelled C-H-I-H-U-A-H-U-A.
Definition
- 1Race de très petit chien de compagnie, originaire du Mexique, le chien le plus petit du monde, à poil court ou à poil long.
- 2Personne qui crie et s'énerve pour un rien.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchihuahua
- chhihuahua
- chhiuahua
- chihauhua
- chihhuahua
- chihuahau
- chihuahhua
- chihuauha
- chihuhaua
- chiuhahua
- cihhuahua
- hcihuahua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chihuahua - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chihuahua", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
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.