chips
\ʃips\
The verdict
“chips” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,366. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,366
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très fine tranche de pommes de terre frite dans l’huile, saupoudrée légèrement de sel ou assaisonnée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chips · chips · French
chips · rank #11,366 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,366
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chrome
Nearest frequency peer: chrome (+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 « chips »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Chantal
Chantal
88,638 corpus weight
- chevet
chevet
88,637 corpus weight
- chips
chips
88,635 corpus weight
- chrome
chrome
88,634 corpus weight
- chroniqueur
chroniqueur
88,633 corpus weight
- cloches
cloches
88,632 corpus weight
What this shows « chips » 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 | chips |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃips\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chips »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around chips (IPA \ʃips\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,366 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for chips, with forms such as "cchips", "chhips", and "chipps". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CIP", "clip", "Cris", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chips, spelled C-H-I-P-S.
Definition
- 1Très fine tranche de pommes de terre frite dans l’huile, saupoudrée légèrement de sel ou assaisonnée.
- 2Très fine tranche d’un autre aliment, présentant un aspect analogue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chips appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il but son café, prit un cornet de chips sur la table, l’ouvrit avec désinvolture et le tendit à Françoise. Elle croqua une rondelle de pomme de terre sèche et salée.
La mère, Rita, sosie de Greta Garbo, se gavait de chips et de massepains, se saoulait de Marie Brizard et procrastinait dans son lit. Elle pleurnichait, ruminait sa mauvaise fortune et celle de son mari, […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchips
- chhips
- chipps
- chipss
- chisp
- chpis
- cihps
- hcips
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chips - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).