check
\tʃɛk\
The verdict
“check” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,188
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vérification, examen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-check · check · French
check · rank #11,188 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,188
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Calvin
Nearest frequency peer: Calvin (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « check »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- budgétaires
budgétaires
88,816 corpus weight
- Calvin
Calvin
88,814 corpus weight
- check
check
88,813 corpus weight
- châssis
châssis
88,812 corpus weight
- coke
coke
88,811 corpus weight
- Cologne
Cologne
88,810 corpus weight
What this shows « check » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | check |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃɛk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « check »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around check (IPA \tʃɛk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,188 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for check, with forms such as "ccheck", "cehck", and "chcek". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chez", "chef", "cher", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is check, spelled C-H-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1Vérification, examen.
- 2Poing-à-poing, action de se saluer en cognant légèrement poing contre poing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how check appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le check permet de s’assurer de la reconnaissance de l’autre, comme lorsque l’on donne un mot de passe pour pouvoir entrer dans un cercle réservé. Le check permet de saluer l’autre, d’entrer en contact avec lui et d’affirmer son appartenance à la même tribu. Suivant les habitudes reconnues et partagées, le check peut exprimer plus d’affection qu’une simpl…
Alors comment expliquer que le check, symbole de la sous-culture urbaine, soit arrivé à la Maison Blanche?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccheck
- cehck
- chcek
- checck
- checkk
- chekc
- chheck
- hceck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of check - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).