chino
\ʃi.no\
The verdict
“chino” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,840. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,840
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pantalon en serge de coton, à l’origine de couleur claire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chino · chino · French
chino · rank #43,840 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,840
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevrier
Nearest frequency peer: chevrier (-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 « chino »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charismatiq…
charismatiques
56,164 corpus weight
- chauffées
chauffées
56,163 corpus weight
- chevrier
chevrier
56,162 corpus weight
- chino
chino
56,161 corpus weight
- choisiront
choisiront
56,160 corpus weight
- choquent
choquent
56,159 corpus weight
What this shows « chino » 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 | chino |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.no\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #43,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chino »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around chino (IPA \ʃi.no\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,840 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pantalon en serge de coton, à l’origine de couleur claire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for chino, with forms such as "cchino", "chhino", and "chion". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cinq", "coin", "ciné", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 chino, spelled C-H-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1Pantalon en serge de coton, à l’origine de couleur claire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chino appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… portait un sweat-shirt bleu pâle et un chino havane au lieu de son antique costume corseté.
Le chino est un pantalon en toile de coton beaucoup plus léger qu’un jean, bien que des modèles en toile épaisse existent également. Il présente de multiples avantages : il est léger, souple, ultra-confortable et, pour peu qu’il soit bien coupé, extrêmement élégant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchino
- chhino
- chion
- chnio
- cihno
- hcino
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chino - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).