chimiste
\ʃi.mist\
The verdict
“chimiste” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,831. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,831
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui s’occupe de chimie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chimiste · chimiste · French
chimiste · rank #16,831 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,831
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cidre
Nearest frequency peer: cidre (+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 « chimiste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cessation
cessation
83,173 corpus weight
- charia
charia
83,172 corpus weight
- chimiste
chimiste
83,170 corpus weight
- cidre
cidre
83,169 corpus weight
- cimetières
cimetières
83,168 corpus weight
- claviers
claviers
83,167 corpus weight
What this shows « chimiste » 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 | chimiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.mist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chimiste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around chimiste (IPA \ʃi.mist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,831 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui, celle qui s’occupe de chimie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for chimiste, with forms such as "cchimiste", "chhimiste", and "chiimste". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "chimistes", "chimie", "chiite", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chimiste, spelled C-H-I-M-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui s’occupe de chimie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chimiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’est pas possible, disent ces chimistes, d’entamer un morceau de verre trempé, à l’aide de la scie, du foret ou de la lime, sans que ce verre éclate, à la façon des larmes bataviques.
Les chimistes organiciens, conscient de l’aspect ludique propre aux synthèses chimiques -[…]- se sont attelés par défi à la création d’hydrocarbures dont le squelette carboné correspond aux polyèdres régulier que sont les solides platoniques.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchimiste
- chhimiste
- chiimste
- chimiset
- chimisste
- chimistte
- chimitse
- chimmiste
- chimsite
- chmiiste
- cihmiste
- hcimiste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chimiste - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).