cher
[ʃɛʁ]
The verdict
“cher” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,929. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,929
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - teuer, hold, lieb, wert
Corpus desk
Index DE-cher · cher · German
cher · rank #21,929 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,929
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH checkt
Nearest frequency peer: checkt (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „cher“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- centrum
centrum
78,075 corpus weight
- Chancenglei…
Chancengleichheit
78,074 corpus weight
- checkt
checkt
78,073 corpus weight
- cher
cher
78,072 corpus weight
- child
child
78,071 corpus weight
- chronologie
chronologie
78,070 corpus weight
What this shows „cher“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | cher |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʃɛʁ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „cher“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cher (IPA [ʃɛʁ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,929 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "teuer, hold, lieb, wert".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cher, with forms such as "ccher", "cehr", and "cherr". 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, "Cr", "CHF", "chi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is cher, spelled C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1teuer, hold, lieb, wert
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccher
- cehr
- cherr
- chher
- chre
- hcer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cher - 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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "cher"?
What does "cher" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "cher"?
How do you pronounce "cher"?
What language does "cher" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cher", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).