chrome
\kʁom\
The verdict
“chrome” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,367. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,367
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique métallique de symbole Cr et de numéro atomique 24.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chrome · chrome · French
chrome · rank #11,367 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,367
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chips
Nearest frequency peer: chips (-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 « chrome »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chevet
chevet
88,637 corpus weight
- chips
chips
88,635 corpus weight
- chrome
chrome
88,634 corpus weight
- chroniqueur
chroniqueur
88,633 corpus weight
- cloches
cloches
88,632 corpus weight
- coiffeur
coiffeur
88,631 corpus weight
What this shows « chrome » 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 | chrome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁom\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chrome »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chrome (IPA \kʁom\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,367 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chrome, with forms such as "cchrome", "chhrome", and "chorme". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "come", "crime", "crème", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 chrome, spelled C-H-R-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique métallique de symbole Cr et de numéro atomique 24.
- 2Métal pur de cet élément, dur, d’une couleur gris acier argenté, résistant à la corrosion et au ternissement.
- 3Pièce chromée.
- 4Tout accessoire décoratif, ajout superflu, etc.
- 5Les alliages de chrome, dans leur ensemble.
- 6Jaune de chrome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chrome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais les aciers ordinaires ne s'y prêtent pas : les aciers propres à la nitruration contiennent généralement du chrome ou de l'aluminium, métaux qui donnent facilement des nitrures.
Jaune de chrome.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchrome
- chhrome
- chorme
- chrmoe
- chroem
- chromme
- chrrome
- crhome
- hcrome
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chrome - 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
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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).