tchat
\t͡ʃat\
The verdict
“tchat” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,619
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conversation écrite virtuelle et en temps réel, par écran interposé, sur internet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tchat · tchat · French
tchat · rank #32,619 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,619
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taudis
Nearest frequency peer: taudis (-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 « tchat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tardent
tardent
67,384 corpus weight
- taudis
taudis
67,383 corpus weight
- tchat
tchat
67,382 corpus weight
- Tigers
Tigers
67,381 corpus weight
- tocard
tocard
67,380 corpus weight
- Tolkien
Tolkien
67,379 corpus weight
What this shows « tchat » 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 | tchat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \t͡ʃat\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tchat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around tchat (IPA \t͡ʃat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,619 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tchat, with forms such as "cthat", "tcaht", and "tcchat". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "tha", "that", "than", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tchat, spelled T-C-H-A-T.
Definition
- 1Conversation écrite virtuelle et en temps réel, par écran interposé, sur internet.
- 2Site ou logiciel qui permet ce mode de communication.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tchat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après, nous avons, en vrac, les addicts au poker, aux jeux en ligne, au tchat, à Facebook. Et, pour finir, les addicts... au chocolat. Oui, au chocolat.
Mon chef a envoyé un message sur le tchat dédié aux employées de l’entreprise : « Ne venez plus au bureau à partir de demain, la situation a l’air grave. »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cthat
- tcaht
- tcchat
- tchatt
- tchhat
- tchta
- thcat
- ttchat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tchat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "tchat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).