Chimay
\ʃi.mɛ\
The verdict
“Chimay” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,931
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chimay · Chimay · French
Chimay · rank #44,931 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,931
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cinéphile
Nearest frequency peer: cinéphile (+2 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 « Chimay »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cautions
cautions
55,075 corpus weight
- chapuis
chapuis
55,074 corpus weight
- Chimay
Chimay
55,070 corpus weight
- cinéphile
cinéphile
55,068 corpus weight
- cliquetis
cliquetis
55,067 corpus weight
- cochet
cochet
55,066 corpus weight
What this shows « Chimay » 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 | Chimay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chimay »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Chimay (IPA \ʃi.mɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,931 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chimay, with forms such as "cchimay", "chhimay", and "chiamy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "China", "climat", "chimie", 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 Chimay, spelled C-H-I-M-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chimay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Art. 39. Limite entre la commune de Chimay (Pays-Bas) et celle de Signy-le-Petit (France). § 1. Partant du point ou commencent les prairies dépendantes de Signy-le-Petit et qui indique la séparation du territoire de Forges et celui de Chimay, la limite, toujours formée par la rivière de la Wartoise, longe la lisière des bois de M. de Caraman, les dites pr…
Ce jour même où elle mourut, les journaux publiaient à Bucarest, la nouvelle de l'entrée des troupes allemandes à Chimay, la ville de Belgique dont, jeune fille, elle avait porté le nom
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchimay
- chhimay
- chiamy
- chimayy
- chimmay
- chimya
- chmiay
- cihmay
- hcimay
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chimay - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).