Chimène
\ʃi.mɛn\
The verdict
“Chimène” is uncommon French (frequency #53,202 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,202
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chimene · Chimène · French
Chimène · rank #53,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,202
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chieur
Nearest frequency peer: chieur (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Chimène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chevalière
chevalière
46,802 corpus weight
- chieur
chieur
46,800 corpus weight
- Chimène
Chimène
46,799 corpus weight
- Chlef
Chlef
46,798 corpus weight
- choquants
choquants
46,797 corpus weight
- châtains
châtains
46,796 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chimène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chimène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chimène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chimène is uncommon French at frequency #53,202 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃi.mɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Chimène, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chimène, spelled C-H-I-M-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
This word in other languages
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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