Which to use
“cheville” and “chevilles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,213
- “cheville” frequency rank
- #15,327
- “chevilles” frequency rank
- 23540
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cheville | chevilles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Morceau de bois ou de métal qu’on fait entrer dans un trou pour le boucher, pour faire des assemblages ou pour d’autres usages. | Pluriel de cheville. |
Same sound, different letters: cheville vs chevilles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Homophone desk: cheville vs chevilles
This is the hard kind. cheville and chevilles are pronounced identically (\ʃə.vij\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “cheville” sits inside “chevilles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23540, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cheville is recorded at frequency rank #8,213, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʃə.vij\. chevilles is at rank #15,327, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʃə.vij\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 23540, this pair ranks #351,903 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of cheville vs chevilles
Shared letters: cehilv. Private to "cheville": -. Private to "chevilles": s.
"cheville" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCCV · "chevilles" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "cheville" for "chevilles" ever safe?
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Useful next steps
"cheville" and "chevilles" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "cheville" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "chevilles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #351,903 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cheville" and "chevilles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cédille vs cheville". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #351,903 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.