carnet de chèques
\kaʁ.nɛ d(ə) ʃɛk\
The verdict
“carnet de chèques” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Petit carnet rempli de chèques sécables.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carnet de chèques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.nɛ d(ə) ʃɛk\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carnet de chèques” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carnet de chèques is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.nɛ d(ə) ʃɛk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Petit carnet rempli de chèques sécables.".
No misspelling variants are generated for carnet de chèques in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is carnet de chèques, spelled C-A-R-N-E-T- -D-E- -C-H-È-Q-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit carnet rempli de chèques sécables.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-N-E-T- -D-E- -C-H-È-Q-U-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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