chimpanzés
\ʃɛ̃.pɑ̃.ze\
The verdict
“chimpanzés” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,605. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,605
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chimpanzé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chimpanzes · chimpanzés · French
chimpanzés · rank #33,605 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,605
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiffrée
Nearest frequency peer: chiffrée (-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 « chimpanzés »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chantaient
chantaient
66,400 corpus weight
- chausson
chausson
66,399 corpus weight
- chercherait
chercherait
66,398 corpus weight
- chiffrée
chiffrée
66,397 corpus weight
- chimpanzés
chimpanzés
66,396 corpus weight
- Chomsky
Chomsky
66,395 corpus weight
What this shows « chimpanzés » 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 | chimpanzés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ̃.pɑ̃.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #33,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chimpanzés »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around chimpanzés (IPA \ʃɛ̃.pɑ̃.ze\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,605 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de chimpanzé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for chimpanzés, with forms such as "cchimpanzés", "chhimpanzés", and "chimapnzés". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "chimpanzé", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chimpanzés, spelled C-H-I-M-P-A-N-Z-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chimpanzé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chimpanzés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Côte d’Ivoire, champion mondial de la production de cacao, la déforestation effrénée pour planter des cacaoyers a quasiment fait disparaître les chimpanzés et les éléphants forestiers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchimpanzés
- chhimpanzés
- chimapnzés
- chimmpanzés
- chimpannzés
- chimpanzes
- chimpanzsé
- chimpanzzés
- chimpanzéss
- chimpanézs
- chimpaznés
- chimpnazés
- chimppanzés
- chipmanzés
- chmipanzés
- cihmpanzés
- hcimpanzés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chimpanzés - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).