cheerleader
\tʃiʁ.li.dœʁ\
The verdict
“cheerleader” is uncommon French (frequency #62,851 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,851
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pom-pom girl ou son équivalent masculin (meneur de claque).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheerleader · cheerleader · French
cheerleader · rank #62,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,851
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chessy
Nearest frequency peer: Chessy (+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 « cheerleader »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- changèrent
changèrent
37,153 corpus weight
- Charlize
Charlize
37,152 corpus weight
- cheerleader
cheerleader
37,150 corpus weight
- Chessy
Chessy
37,149 corpus weight
- chevrette
chevrette
37,148 corpus weight
- chiesa
chiesa
37,147 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cheerleader » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheerleader |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʃiʁ.li.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cheerleader » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cheerleader is uncommon French at frequency #62,851 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʃiʁ.li.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pom-pom girl ou son équivalent masculin (meneur de claque).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cheerleader, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 cheerleader, spelled C-H-E-E-R-L-E-A-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pom-pom girl ou son équivalent masculin (meneur de claque).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cheerleader appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vidéo a été réalisée en République dominicaine lors du voyage des cheerleaders pour le shooting du calendrier 2013.
Qui ne connaît pas les cheerleaders, celles que nous appelons les pom-pom girls, jeunes filles en uniforme bariolé qui se trémoussent au bord de terrains de sport outre-Atlantique ?
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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