cheetah
\ˈtʃi.tə\
The verdict
“cheetah” is uncommon French (frequency #70,472 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,472
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Guépard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheetah · cheetah · French
cheetah · rank #70,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,472
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charpie
Nearest frequency peer: charpie (-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 « cheetah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chargeaient
chargeaient
29,532 corpus weight
- charognard
charognard
29,531 corpus weight
- charpie
charpie
29,530 corpus weight
- cheetah
cheetah
29,529 corpus weight
- Cheverny
Cheverny
29,528 corpus weight
- cii
cii
29,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cheetah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheetah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtʃi.tə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cheetah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cheetah is uncommon French at frequency #70,472 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtʃi.tə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Guépard.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cheetah in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cheetah, spelled C-H-E-E-T-A-H.
Definition
- 1Guépard.
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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