chimpanzé
\ʃɛ̃.pɑ̃.ze\
The verdict
“chimpanzé” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,706. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,706
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Singe anthropoïde d’Afrique de la tribu des panines, famille des hominidés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chimpanze · chimpanzé · French
chimpanzé · rank #39,706 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,706
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiliens
Nearest frequency peer: chiliens (-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 « chimpanzé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chercheront
chercheront
60,298 corpus weight
- chevauche
chevauche
60,297 corpus weight
- chiliens
chiliens
60,296 corpus weight
- chimpanzé
chimpanzé
60,295 corpus weight
- Chinatown
Chinatown
60,294 corpus weight
- choir
choir
60,293 corpus weight
What this shows « chimpanzé » 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 | chimpanzé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ̃.pɑ̃.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chimpanzé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around chimpanzé (IPA \ʃɛ̃.pɑ̃.ze\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,706 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for chimpanzé, with forms such as "cchimpanzé", "chhimpanzé", and "chimapnzé". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "chimpanzés", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chimpanzé, spelled C-H-I-M-P-A-N-Z-É.
Definition
- 1Singe anthropoïde d’Afrique de la tribu des panines, famille des hominidés.
- 2Personne qui imite les gestes d’un autre, sans réfléchir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chimpanzé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chimpanzé se distingue immédiatement des autres anthropoïdes par son visage nu, ses grandes oreilles, son poil noir et brillant. Bien que la coloration des parties nues se rapproche assez de la nôtre, on connaît des variétés de chimpanzés à la face brune, grise ou noire. L’épaisseur du poil diffère aussi selon les espèces. Ce singe est moins lourdement…
Le chimpanzé est omnivore, et il est occasionnellement carnivore. Il pratique occasionnellement la chasse et l’on peut voir se manifester à la fois coopération et stratégie d’encerclement et de diversion dans la chasse aux petits potamochères.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchimpanzé
- chhimpanzé
- chimapnzé
- chimmpanzé
- chimpannzé
- chimpanze
- chimpanzzé
- chimpanéz
- chimpazné
- chimpnazé
- chimppanzé
- chipmanzé
- chmipanzé
- cihmpanzé
- hcimpanzé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chimpanzé - 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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