cheque
\ʃɛjk\
The verdict
“cheque” is uncommon French (frequency #51,350 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,350
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de cheik.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheque · cheque · French
cheque · rank #51,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,350
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chennai
Nearest frequency peer: Chennai (-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 « cheque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cheat
cheat
48,654 corpus weight
- cheers
cheers
48,653 corpus weight
- Chennai
Chennai
48,652 corpus weight
- cheque
cheque
48,651 corpus weight
- chipoter
chipoter
48,650 corpus weight
- chloroforme
chloroforme
48,649 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cheque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛjk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cheque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cheque is uncommon French at frequency #51,350 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛjk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de cheik.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cheque, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cheque, spelled C-H-E-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de cheik.
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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