chimistes
\ʃi.mist\
The verdict
“chimistes” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,023. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,023
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chimiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chimistes · chimistes · French
chimistes · rank #34,023 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,023
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CHF
Nearest frequency peer: CHF (-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 « chimistes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charrues
charrues
65,981 corpus weight
- chartreux
chartreux
65,980 corpus weight
- CHF
CHF
65,979 corpus weight
- chimistes
chimistes
65,978 corpus weight
- choco
choco
65,977 corpus weight
- chong
chong
65,976 corpus weight
What this shows « chimistes » 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 | chimistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.mist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chimistes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around chimistes (IPA \ʃi.mist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,023 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de chimiste.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for chimistes, with forms such as "cchimistes", "chhimistes", and "chiimstes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "choristes", "chiites", "chemises", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 chimistes, spelled C-H-I-M-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chimiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chimistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les végétaux et surtout les grands, selon les chimistes, contribuent à sanifier l’atmosphère.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchimistes
- chhimistes
- chiimstes
- chimisets
- chimisstes
- chimistess
- chimistse
- chimisttes
- chimitses
- chimmistes
- chimsites
- chmiistes
- cihmistes
- hcimistes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chimistes - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).