chong
\cɔŋ˦\
The verdict
“chong” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,025
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maintenir allumé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chong · chong · French
chong · rank #34,025 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,025
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH choco
Nearest frequency peer: choco (-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 « chong »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CHF
CHF
65,979 corpus weight
- chimistes
chimistes
65,978 corpus weight
- choco
choco
65,977 corpus weight
- chong
chong
65,976 corpus weight
- chromosome
chromosome
65,975 corpus weight
- clamer
clamer
65,974 corpus weight
What this shows « chong » 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 | chong |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \cɔŋ˦\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chong »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around chong (IPA \cɔŋ˦\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,025 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Maintenir allumé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for chong, with forms such as "cchong", "chhong", and "chnog". 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, "con", "cons", "chou", 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 chong, spelled C-H-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1Maintenir allumé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chong appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
chong đèn suốt đêm
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchong
- chhong
- chnog
- chogn
- chongg
- chonng
- cohng
- hcong
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chong - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chong", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).