cheat
\tʃit\
The verdict
“cheat” is uncommon French (frequency #51,347 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,347
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Triche dans les jeux vidéo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheat · cheat · French
cheat · rank #51,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,347
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chapo
Nearest frequency peer: chapo (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cheat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- centralise
centralise
48,657 corpus weight
- Cerdagne
Cerdagne
48,656 corpus weight
- chapo
chapo
48,655 corpus weight
- cheat
cheat
48,654 corpus weight
- cheers
cheers
48,653 corpus weight
- Chennai
Chennai
48,652 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cheat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃit\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cheat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cheat is uncommon French at frequency #51,347 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʃit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Triche dans les jeux vidéo.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cheat in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cheat, spelled C-H-E-A-T.
Definition
- 1Triche dans les jeux vidéo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cheat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est un cheat, c'est un bug, c'est un script
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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