choir
\ʃwaʁ\
The verdict
“choir” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,708. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,708
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-choir · choir · French
choir · rank #39,708 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,708
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chinatown
Nearest frequency peer: Chinatown (-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 « choir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chiliens
chiliens
60,296 corpus weight
- chimpanzé
chimpanzé
60,295 corpus weight
- Chinatown
Chinatown
60,294 corpus weight
- choir
choir
60,293 corpus weight
- chorus
chorus
60,292 corpus weight
- cirrhose
cirrhose
60,290 corpus weight
What this shows « choir » 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 | choir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « choir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around choir (IPA \ʃwaʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,708 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tomber.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for choir, with forms such as "cchoir", "chhoir", and "chior". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cor", "Cir", "CHR", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is choir, spelled C-H-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Tomber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how choir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Tire la chevillette et la bobinette cherra ». (Conjugaison archaïque, cf. infra)
Il chut ensuite tant de neige que les loups quittèrent les bois et entrèrent dans les maisons.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchoir
- chhoir
- chior
- choirr
- chori
- cohir
- hcoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of choir - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).