CHR
The verdict
“CHR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,945) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,945
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Centre hospitalier régional (en France).
Corpus desk
Index FR-chr · CHR · French
CHR · rank #30,945 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,945
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH choice
Nearest frequency peer: choice (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « CHR »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Champigny
Champigny
69,059 corpus weight
- chemisier
chemisier
69,058 corpus weight
- choice
choice
69,057 corpus weight
- CHR
CHR
69,056 corpus weight
- chung
chung
69,055 corpus weight
- clame
clame
69,054 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CHR » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | CHR |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CHR »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CHR is neighbouring look-alikes ("ci", "co", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #30,945 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Centre hospitalier régional (en France).".
No misspelling variants are generated for CHR in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ci", "co", "Cm", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is CHR, spelled C-H-R.
Definition
- 1Centre hospitalier régional (en France).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CHR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut donc se mesurer régulièrement au-delà de 50 ans, mais « aussi s’interroger lors de la survenue d’une fracture à bas niveau d’énergie, comme celle survenant après une chute de sa hauteur », indique le Dʳ Éric Lespessailles, rhumatologue au CHR d’Orléans, membre du conseil scientifique du GRIO (Groupe de recherche et d’information sur les ostéoporos…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).