Chili
\ʃi.li\
The verdict
“Chili” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,689. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,689
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays d’Amérique du Sud, bordé par le Pacifique Sud, le Pérou, la Bolivie et l’Argentine, et dont la capitale est Santiago de Chile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chili · Chili · French
Chili · rank #6,689 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,689
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charmant
Nearest frequency peer: charmant (-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 « Chili »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CDI
CDI
93,315 corpus weight
- CGT
CGT
93,314 corpus weight
- charmant
charmant
93,313 corpus weight
- Chili
Chili
93,312 corpus weight
- cloche
cloche
93,311 corpus weight
- comparable
comparable
93,310 corpus weight
What this shows « Chili » 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 | Chili |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chili »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Chili (IPA \ʃi.li\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,689 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays d’Amérique du Sud, bordé par le Pacifique Sud, le Pérou, la Bolivie et l’Argentine, et dont la capitale est Santiago de Chile.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chili, with forms such as "cchili", "chhili", and "chiil". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cil", "cils", "CNIL", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Chili, spelled C-H-I-L-I.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Amérique du Sud, bordé par le Pacifique Sud, le Pérou, la Bolivie et l’Argentine, et dont la capitale est Santiago de Chile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chili appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Chili, la culture est accusée d’être à l’origine des graves sécheresses qui sévissent dans la province de Petorca, au centre du pays.
La CIA avait largement subventionné la grève des transporteurs routiers du Chili, pour déstabiliser l'économie locale et affaiblir le pouvoir du président marxiste Salvador Allende.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchili
- chhili
- chiil
- chilli
- chlii
- cihli
- hcili
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chili - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).