chill
\tʃil\
The verdict
“chill” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,728. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,728
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cool, correct, agréable, dans l'ordre voulu des choses. Note : Généralement écrit en italique parce que toujours senti comme un mot anglais. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
Corpus desk
Index FR-chill · chill · French
chill · rank #27,728 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,728
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chauvin
Nearest frequency peer: chauvin (-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 « chill »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chandail
chandail
72,278 corpus weight
- charleston
charleston
72,277 corpus weight
- charmantes
charmantes
72,276 corpus weight
- chasteté
chasteté
72,275 corpus weight
- chauvin
chauvin
72,274 corpus weight
- chill
chill
72,273 corpus weight
What this shows « chill » 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 | chill |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʃil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chill »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around chill (IPA \tʃil\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,728 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for chill, with forms such as "cchill", "chhill", and "chil". 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", "ciel", "coll", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chill, spelled C-H-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Cool, correct, agréable, dans l'ordre voulu des choses. Note : Généralement écrit en italique parce que toujours senti comme un mot anglais. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
- 2Qui est tranquille, calme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car dans la réalité, il se trouve de plus en plus de gens qui ne veulent pas mettre le temps nécessaire à l’achat d’une police d’assurance vie sur mesure. Et pour qui jaser avec un conseiller en sécurité financière un soir de semaine, ce n’est pas très chill!
— Avez-vous eu le temps de corriger les travaux? — Oui. Je vais vous remettre ça tantôt. — C'est chill. À tout à l'heure.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchill
- chhill
- chil
- chlil
- cihll
- hcill
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chill - 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.
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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 (6 here; floor ≥5).