chuis
\ʃɥi\
The verdict
“chuis” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,483
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraction de je suis du verbe être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chuis · chuis · French
chuis · rank #28,483 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,483
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Christelle
Nearest frequency peer: Christelle (-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 « chuis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charrue
charrue
71,521 corpus weight
- chattes
chattes
71,520 corpus weight
- Christelle
Christelle
71,519 corpus weight
- chuis
chuis
71,518 corpus weight
- Châteauneuf
Châteauneuf
71,517 corpus weight
- cinémathèque
cinémathèque
71,516 corpus weight
What this shows « chuis » 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 | chuis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɥi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chuis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around chuis (IPA \ʃɥi\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,483 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Contraction de je suis du verbe être.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for chuis, with forms such as "cchuis", "chhuis", and "chius". 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, "Cris", "cuir", "cuit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chuis, spelled C-H-U-I-S.
Definition
- 1Contraction de je suis du verbe être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chuis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus de Mobylette, plus rien, sauf, peut-être... A cause du clin d'œil vicieux d'un remous, la méduse qui ondule ? Chuis dans la merde. Son cœur s'arrête de battre. Comment je vais expliquer aux gendarmes que ma bécane est tombée à l'eau.
— N'empêche que chuis dans la mouise, a fait Mark. Mon paternel, vous savez bien. J'avais interdiction de sortir. (Il s'est levé) On bouge ? Peut-être qu'il sera moins sévère si je rentre pas trop tard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchuis
- chhuis
- chius
- chuiss
- chusi
- cuhis
- hcuis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chuis - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).