CH
voir ces lettres. En français, cela donne
The verdict
“CH” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,389 in French word frequency and used as a symbol.
- #3,389
- frequency rank, French
- 2
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Signe distinctif en trafic international des véhicules automobiles immatriculés en Suisse, prescrit dans le cadre de la Convention sur la circulation routière de Genève de 1949 et de la Convention ...
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 | CH |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| IPA | voir ces lettres. En français, cela donne |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “CH” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for CH is 2 letters long, classified as a symbol, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as voir ces lettres. En français, cela donne. Corpus data places it at rank #3,389 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for CH, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ci", "co", "Cm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is CH, spelled C-H.
Definition
- 1Signe distinctif en trafic international des véhicules automobiles immatriculés en Suisse, prescrit dans le cadre de la Convention sur la circulation routière de Genève de 1949 et de la Convention sur la signalisation routière de Vienne de 1968.
- 2Formule chimique du groupe fonctionnel méthine.
- 3Code ISO 3166-1 (alpha-2) de la Suisse.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “CH”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as voir ces lettres. En français, cela donne (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ci” - see the side-by-side comparison. CH vs ci
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.