Chinon
\ʃi.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“Chinon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,742
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département d’Indre-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chinon · Chinon · French
Chinon · rank #32,742 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,742
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chérif
Nearest frequency peer: chérif (+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 « Chinon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cheng
cheng
67,262 corpus weight
- Cheryl
Cheryl
67,261 corpus weight
- Chinon
Chinon
67,259 corpus weight
- chérif
chérif
67,258 corpus weight
- cigale
cigale
67,257 corpus weight
- cime
cime
67,256 corpus weight
What this shows « Chinon » 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 | Chinon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chinon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Chinon (IPA \ʃi.nɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,742 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chinon, with forms such as "cchinon", "chhinon", and "chinno". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "chiot", "chiron", "Clinton", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chinon, spelled C-H-I-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département d’Indre-et-Loire.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département d’Indre-et-Loire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chinon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, aujourd’hui, je veux rabelaiser, rien que rabelaiser à Chinon et en Chinonais.
Originaires de Chinon, Anouk Le Terrier et Lisa Souloy veulent conquérir le monde avec leurs gammes de produits probiotiques Dijo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchinon
- chhinon
- chinno
- chinnon
- chinonn
- chionn
- chnion
- cihnon
- hcinon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chinon - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).