CH

/voir ces lettres. En français, cela donne/ symbol

Letters

2 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,389

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

CH is aFrenchsymbol. It means: 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 ... Pronounced voir ces lettres. En français, cela donne. It ranks #3,389 in French word frequency. Often confused with ci and co.

Key facts for CH
PropertyValue
HeadwordCH
LanguageFrench
Part of speechSymbol
IPAvoir ces lettres. En français, cela donne
Letters2
Frequency rank#3,389
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of CH in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for CH is 2 letters long, classified as asymbol, 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.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for CH in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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 CH, spelled C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 sur la signalisation routière de Vienne de 1968.
  2. 2
    Formule chimique du groupe fonctionnel méthine.
  3. 3
    Code ISO 3166-1 (alpha-2) de la Suisse.

Frequency rank: #3,389 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "CH"?
"CH" is spelled C-H. The IPA pronunciation is voir ces lettres. En français, cela donne.
What does "CH" mean?
As a symbol, "CH" means: 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 ...
What words are commonly confused with "CH"?
"CH" is commonly confused with "ci", "co", "Cm". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "CH"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "CH" is voir ces lettres. En français, cela donne. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "CH" come from?
"CH" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.