cherub
/ˈt͡ʃɛ.ɹəb/
"cherub" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cherub” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,531. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,531
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be fo...
Corpus desk
Index EN-cherub · cherub · English
cherub · rank #47,531 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,531
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chiswick
Nearest frequency peer: Chiswick (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “cherub”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Chaim
Chaim
52,474 corpus weight
- cherub
cherub
52,470 corpus weight
- Chiswick
Chiswick
52,469 corpus weight
- chula
chula
52,468 corpus weight
- clearinghou…
clearinghouse
52,467 corpus weight
- cleve
cleve
52,466 corpus weight
What this shows “cherub” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the 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 | cherub |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃɛ.ɹəb/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cherub”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cherub (IPA /ˈt͡ʃɛ.ɹəb/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,531 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cherub, with forms such as "ccherub", "cehrub", and "cherbu". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "chub", "chorus", "Cheryl", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cherub, cherube, cherubin, cherubine, cherubym, cherubyn, cherybin, gerubin, jerubin (“angel of the second highest order; depiction of such an angel”), from Old English cerubin, cerubim, ceruphin, cherubin, from Latin cherūbīm, cherūbīn,… The correct English form is cherub, spelled C-H-E-R-U-B.
Definition
- 1A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
- 2A winged angel, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim.
- 3In later texts changed to a winged baby; in artistic depictions sometimes a baby's head with wings but no body.
- 4A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cherub appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Over the arcke were the cherubyns off glory shadowynge the seate of grace.
So he [God] droue out the man [Adam]: and he placed at the East of the garden of Eden, Cherubims, and a flaming ſword, which turned euery way, to keepe the way of the tree of life.
Etymology
From Middle English cherub, cherube, cherubin, cherubine, cherubym, cherubyn, cherybin, gerubin, jerubin (“angel of the second highest order; depiction of such an angel”), from Old English cerubin, cerubim, ceruphin, cherubin, from Latin cherūbīm, cherūbīn, from Ancient Greek χερουβῑ́μ (kheroubī́m), χερουβείν (kheroubeín), χερουβίμ (kheroubím), from Hebrew כְּרוּבִים (k'ruvím);. Because it was not always clear from Bible passages whether a single being or group of beings was being referred to, cherubin was used both as a singular word (plural cherubins) and plural word up to the 18th century. However, in Bible translations particularly from the 16th century onward cherub began to be favoured as the singular form, and from the 17th century cherubim as the plural form (influenced by Hebrew כְּרוּבִים (k'ruvím)). The English word is cognate with French chérubin, Italian cherubino, Old Spanish cherubin (modern Spanish querubín), Galician querubín, Portuguese querubim.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccherub
- cehrub
- cherbu
- cherrub
- cherubb
- cheurb
- chherub
- chreub
- hcerub
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cherub - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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