checklist
\tʃɛk.list\
The verdict
“checklist” is uncommon French (frequency #68,133 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,133
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liste de tâches ou de vérifications à effectuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-checklist · checklist · French
checklist · rank #68,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,133
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chedid
Nearest frequency peer: Chedid (+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 « checklist »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charo
charo
31,872 corpus weight
- chatouilles
chatouilles
31,871 corpus weight
- chausses
chausses
31,870 corpus weight
- checklist
checklist
31,868 corpus weight
- Chedid
Chedid
31,867 corpus weight
- Chollet
Chollet
31,865 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « checklist » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | checklist |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃɛk.list\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « checklist » en français
Rare enough to double-check
checklist is uncommon French at frequency #68,133 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʃɛk.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Liste de tâches ou de vérifications à effectuer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for checklist in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is checklist, spelled C-H-E-C-K-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Liste de tâches ou de vérifications à effectuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how checklist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Benjamin prit place dans la bulle, à côté du pilote, ajusta son casque de vol et régla le laryngophone, pendant que le second maître, un happeur gainé de plastique transparent à la main, finissait d'égrener sa check-list avant le départ.
Dans sa tête, une check-list commençait à se mettre en place.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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