choix
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#399
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
choix is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de choisir. Pronounced \ʃwa\. It ranks #399 in French word frequency. Often confused with cox and coi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | choix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃwa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for choix is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #399 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for choix, with forms such as "cchoix", "chhoix", and "chiox". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cox", "coi", "coin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is choix, spelled C-H-O-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de choisir.
- 2Pouvoir ou faculté de choisir.
- 3Préférence accordée à une personne ou à une chose.
- 4Variété, grande quantité d’objets entre lesquels on peut choisir.
- 5Discernement ; distinction.
- 6Meilleur ou qu’on a jugé le meilleur.
- 7Ce qui a été particulièrement choisi.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchoix,chhoix,chiox,choixx,choxi,cohix,hcoix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for choix
Misspelling Variants of "choix"
Frequency rank: #399 in French
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