chômeur
\ʃo.mœʁ\
The verdict
“chômeur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,479
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne pouvant et souhaitant travailler mais qui est sans emploi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chomeur · chômeur · French
chômeur · rank #19,479 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,479
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citons
Nearest frequency peer: citons (+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 « chômeur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chanoines
chanoines
80,525 corpus weight
- charcuterie
charcuterie
80,524 corpus weight
- chômeur
chômeur
80,522 corpus weight
- citons
citons
80,521 corpus weight
- clone
clone
80,520 corpus weight
- collaborati…
collaborations
80,519 corpus weight
What this shows « chômeur » 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 | chômeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃo.mœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chômeur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chômeur (IPA \ʃo.mœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,479 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne pouvant et souhaitant travailler mais qui est sans emploi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chômeur, with forms such as "cchômeur", "chhômeur", and "chmôeur". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "coeur", "choper", "clameur", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chômeur, spelled C-H-Ô-M-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne pouvant et souhaitant travailler mais qui est sans emploi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chômeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bref, c’est ici comme partout : l’urbanisme attire et dévore. Il rejette ces cosses vides : les chômeurs.
Vérité plus frappante encore en Allemagne que dans le reste du monde: six millions de chômeurs, tant bien que mal assurés contre la crevaison de faim, et autant de sans-travail et sans allocation, réduits, avec leurs familles, à la sportule de la charité publique !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchômeur
- chhômeur
- chmôeur
- chomeur
- chôemur
- chômeru
- chômeurr
- chômmeur
- chômuer
- côhmeur
- hcômeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chômeur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).