Cherbourg
\ʃɛʁ.buʁ\
The verdict
“Cherbourg” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,571. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,571
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancienne commune française située dans le département de la Manche intégrée depuis 2000 à la commune de Cherbourg-Octeville.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cherbourg · Cherbourg · French
Cherbourg · rank #16,571 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,571
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH chelou
Nearest frequency peer: chelou (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Cherbourg”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Charentes
Charentes
83,433 corpus weight
- chelou
chelou
83,431 corpus weight
- Cherbourg
Cherbourg
83,430 corpus weight
- choquée
choquée
83,429 corpus weight
- Coderre
Coderre
83,428 corpus weight
- collectionn…
collectionneur
83,427 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Cherbourg” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cherbourg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cherbourg” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Cherbourg (IPA \ʃɛʁ.buʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,571 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ancienne commune française située dans le département de la Manche intégrée depuis 2000 à la commune de Cherbourg-Octeville.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cherbourg, with forms such as "ccherbourg", "cehrbourg", and "chebrourg". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Cherbourg, spelled C-H-E-R-B-O-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Ancienne commune française située dans le département de la Manche intégrée depuis 2000 à la commune de Cherbourg-Octeville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cherbourg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le train de Cherbourg à Paris, le hasard voulu que je trouvasse comme compagnon de wagon un de mes anciens camarades, […].
Denise était venue à pied de la gare Saint-Lazare, où un train de Cherbourg l'avait débarquée avec ses deux frères, après une nuit passée sur la dure banquette d'un wagon de troisième classe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccherbourg
- cehrbourg
- chebrourg
- cherbbourg
- cherborug
- cherbougr
- cherbourgg
- cherbourrg
- cherbuorg
- cheroburg
- cherrbourg
- chherbourg
- chrebourg
- hcerbourg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cherbourg - 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 "Cherbourg", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.