cheerleader

\tʃiʁ.li.dœʁ\

/\tʃiʁ.li.dœʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cheerleader » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cheerleader
PropertyValue
Headwordcheerleader
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʃiʁ.li.dœʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#62,851
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cheerleader » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cheerleadertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Chessy » (#62,852), « Charlize » (#62,849), « chevrette » (#62,853). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cheerleader » est au #62,851. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pom-pom girl ou son équivalent masculin (meneur de claque).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cheerleader appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La vidéo a été réalisée en République dominicaine lors du voyage des cheerleaders pour le shooting du calendrier 2013.
  2. 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 ?

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cheerleader"?
"cheerleader" is spelled C-H-E-E-R-L-E-A-D-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \tʃiʁ.li.dœʁ\.
What does "cheerleader" mean?
As a noun, "cheerleader" means: Pom-pom girl ou son équivalent masculin (meneur de claque).
How do you pronounce "cheerleader"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cheerleader" is \tʃiʁ.li.dœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cheerleader" come from?
"cheerleader" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cheerleader", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list