chorus
\kɔ.ʁys\
The verdict
“chorus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,709. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,709
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chœur, dans la locution « faire chorus ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-chorus · chorus · French
chorus · rank #39,709 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,709
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH choir
Nearest frequency peer: choir (-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 « chorus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- ciudad
ciudad
60,289 corpus weight
What this shows « chorus » 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 | chorus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chorus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chorus (IPA \kɔ.ʁys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,709 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chorus, with forms such as "cchorus", "chhorus", and "chorrus". 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, "chou", "crus", "cors", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chorus, spelled C-H-O-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Chœur, dans la locution « faire chorus ».
- 2Refrain d’une chanson.
- 3Dans la musique de jazz, improvisation d’un soliste sur toute la durée ou sur une partie d’un thème.
- 4Effet audio utilisé notamment à la guitare électrique pour donner l'impression que plusieurs instruments jouent en même temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chorus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il joua les trois chorus et s'arrêta.
Willie Smith prend une série de chorus incroyables sur Hocus Pocus, tirant de son instrument des notes suraiguës qui n’existent pas sur le doigté officiel du saxophone alto.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchorus
- chhorus
- chorrus
- chorsu
- choruss
- chours
- chrous
- cohrus
- hcorus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chorus - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "chorus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).