cher
\ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“cher” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #682. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #682
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est chéri, tendrement aimé, auquel on tient beaucoup.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cher · cher · French
cher · rank #682 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #682
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chacun
Nearest frequency peer: chacun (-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 « cher »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- étude
étude
99,322 corpus weight
- études
études
99,321 corpus weight
- chacun
chacun
99,320 corpus weight
- cher
cher
99,319 corpus weight
- devient
devient
99,318 corpus weight
- données
données
99,317 corpus weight
What this shows « cher » 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 | cher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cher »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cher (IPA \ʃɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #682 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cher, with forms such as "ccher", "cehr", and "cherr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CR", "clé", "Cyr", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cher, spelled C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui est chéri, tendrement aimé, auquel on tient beaucoup.
- 2Auquel on attache une grande importance.
- 3Formule de politesse.
- 4Qui a un prix élevé ; qui est coûteux.
- 5Dont le prix est plus haut que les autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Être cher à quelqu’un.
C’est une personne qui lui est extrêmement chère.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccher
- cehr
- cherr
- chher
- chre
- hcer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cher - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cher", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).