cheeky chappie
"cheeky-chappie" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cheeky chappie” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cheeky, likeable man or boy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cheeky-chappie · cheeky chappie · English
cheeky chappie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheeky chappie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cheeky chappie” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cheeky chappie is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A cheeky, likeable man or boy.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cheeky chappie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is cheeky chappie, spelled C-H-E-E-K-Y- -C-H-A-P-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1A cheeky, likeable man or boy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cheeky chappie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One reply given to the foregoing question was that "men do not go to church because they do not want to, and, in spite of Mr. Wade, this is still a partly free country." After firing this little squib off, the perpetrator of it must have felt relieved. He is the cheerful, cheeky chappie whom Evangelist Alexander would have fired at with his own dum-dum bu…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.