cheh
\ʃɛ\
The verdict
“cheh” is uncommon French (frequency #83,706 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,706
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit à quelqu’un qui subit un malheur du fait d’une action passée, équivalent de « tu mérites ce qu’il t’arrive » ou de « bien fait pour toi ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheh · cheh · French
cheh · rank #83,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,706
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cheikhs
Nearest frequency peer: cheikhs (+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 « cheh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charentaises
charentaises
16,299 corpus weight
- chaumet
chaumet
16,297 corpus weight
- cheh
cheh
16,295 corpus weight
- cheikhs
cheikhs
16,294 corpus weight
- chiales
chiales
16,292 corpus weight
- chopent
chopent
16,291 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cheh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cheh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cheh is uncommon French at frequency #83,706 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cheh, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 cheh, spelled C-H-E-H.
Definition
- 1Se dit à quelqu’un qui subit un malheur du fait d’une action passée, équivalent de « tu mérites ce qu’il t’arrive » ou de « bien fait pour toi ».
- 2Expression menaçante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cheh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
T’as voulu faire le mec qui breake, genre tu gères ! Tu t’es cassé le cou, maintenant, tout le monde crie « cheh ! »
L’honneur, le respect pour moi ça vaut cher, quand un de nous tombe, les ennemis font Cheh.
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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