chrysalides
\kʁi.za.lid\
The verdict
“chrysalides” is uncommon French (frequency #84,636 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,636
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chrysalide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chrysalides · chrysalides · French
chrysalides · rank #84,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,636
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chromatine
Nearest frequency peer: chromatine (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chrysalides »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chevreul
Chevreul
15,368 corpus weight
- chicots
chicots
15,367 corpus weight
- chromatine
chromatine
15,366 corpus weight
- chrysalides
chrysalides
15,365 corpus weight
- cinémascope
cinémascope
15,364 corpus weight
- claustropho…
claustrophobie
15,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chrysalides » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chrysalides |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁi.za.lid\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chrysalides » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chrysalides is uncommon French at frequency #84,636 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁi.za.lid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chrysalide.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chrysalides in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chrysalides, spelled C-H-R-Y-S-A-L-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chrysalide.
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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