cheik
\ʃɛjk\
The verdict
“cheik” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,216. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,216
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chef de tribu chez les bédouins arabes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheik · cheik · French
cheik · rank #47,216 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,216
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chausser
Nearest frequency peer: chausser (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cheik »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CFP
CFP
52,788 corpus weight
- chabrol
chabrol
52,787 corpus weight
- chausser
chausser
52,786 corpus weight
- cheik
cheik
52,785 corpus weight
- chenaux
chenaux
52,783 corpus weight
- Cheney
Cheney
52,782 corpus weight
What this shows « cheik » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheik |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛjk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cheik »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cheik (IPA \ʃɛjk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,216 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cheik, with forms such as "ccheik", "cehik", and "cheikk". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chez", "cher", "chic", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cheik, spelled C-H-E-I-K.
Definition
- 1Chef de tribu chez les bédouins arabes.
- 2Homme respecté en raison de son grand âge ou de ses connaissances.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cheik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le maréchal de Mac-Mahon au Sénat, c’est une individualité mêlée à d’autres individualités, tandis qu’à la Présidence, il est seul et unique. C’est comme si l’on offrait le poste de sénateur au bach-aga qui assistait à la séance de la Chambre dans la tribune diplomatique. Il répondrait simplement : « Je ne veux pas être sénateur, comme M. Tolain, puisque…
Quand la tribu parcourt le désert, son chef, le cheik, chevauche à sa tête.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccheik
- cehik
- cheikk
- cheki
- chheik
- chiek
- hceik
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cheik - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).