checks
\tʃɛk\
The verdict
“checks” is uncommon French (frequency #96,745 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,745
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de check.
Corpus desk
Index FR-checks · checks · French
checks · rank #96,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,745
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chergui
Nearest frequency peer: chergui (+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 « checks »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chaource
Chaource
3,261 corpus weight
- charriot
charriot
3,259 corpus weight
- chatoyante
chatoyante
3,258 corpus weight
- checks
checks
3,256 corpus weight
- chergui
chergui
3,255 corpus weight
- chimiothéra…
chimiothérapies
3,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « checks » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | checks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃɛk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « checks » en français
Rare enough to double-check
checks is uncommon French at frequency #96,745 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʃɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de check.".
checks has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is checks, spelled C-H-E-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de check.
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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