Chinese
\çiˈneːzə\
The verdict
“Chinese” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,307. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,307
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chinois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chinese · Chinese · French
Chinese · rank #36,307 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,307
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chick
Nearest frequency peer: chick (-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 « Chinese »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Chauveau
Chauveau
63,697 corpus weight
- chevauchée
chevauchée
63,696 corpus weight
- chick
chick
63,695 corpus weight
- Chinese
Chinese
63,694 corpus weight
- cinquièmes
cinquièmes
63,693 corpus weight
- circulaient
circulaient
63,692 corpus weight
What this shows « Chinese » 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 | Chinese |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \çiˈneːzə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chinese »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Chinese (IPA \çiˈneːzə\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,307 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chinese, with forms such as "cchinese", "chhinese", and "chiense". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "chinoise", "chênes", "cheese", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Chinese, spelled C-H-I-N-E-S-E.
Definition
- 1Chinois.
- 2Resto chinois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chinese appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Staatsgründer Mao stand Religionen immer einigermaßen feindselig gegenüber. Die meisten Chinesen sehen sich auch deswegen als Atheisten.
Der durchschnittliche Chinese ist (...) darauf angewiesen, einen Großteil seiner Einkünfte für Notlagen oder zur Altersabsicherung beiseitezulegen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchinese
- chhinese
- chiense
- chinees
- chinesse
- chinnese
- chinsee
- chniese
- cihnese
- hcinese
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chinese - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Chinese", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).