chrono
\kʁɔ.no\
The verdict
“chrono” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,738. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,738
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chronomètre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chrono · chrono · French
chrono · rank #12,738 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,738
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cassée
Nearest frequency peer: cassée (-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 « chrono »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- carmen
carmen
87,266 corpus weight
- Carol
Carol
87,265 corpus weight
- cassée
cassée
87,264 corpus weight
- chrono
chrono
87,263 corpus weight
- chut
chut
87,262 corpus weight
- classées
classées
87,260 corpus weight
What this shows « chrono » 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 | chrono |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.no\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chrono »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chrono (IPA \kʁɔ.no\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,738 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 chrono, with forms such as "cchrono", "chhrono", and "chorno". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "croco", "corona", "Cyrano", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chrono, spelled C-H-R-O-N-O.
Definition
- 1Chronomètre.
- 2Temps effectué pour accomplir une course.
- 3Limitation du temps alloué à une activité.
- 4Contre-la-montre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chrono appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une bonne p’tite soupe en dix-huit minutes, chrono en main, ça vous tente ?.
Bataille aussi contre l’espace-temps : on se doit de faire un bon chrono, ou au minimum de tenir la distance sans défaillance.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchrono
- chhrono
- chorno
- chrnoo
- chronno
- chroon
- chrrono
- crhono
- hcrono
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chrono - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chrono", 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).