chercha
\ʃɛʁ.ʃa\
The verdict
“chercha” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,880
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe chercher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chercha · chercha · French
chercha · rank #31,880 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,880
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cheffe
Nearest frequency peer: cheffe (-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 « chercha »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cerisier
cerisier
68,124 corpus weight
- Chambly
Chambly
68,123 corpus weight
- cheffe
cheffe
68,122 corpus weight
- chercha
chercha
68,121 corpus weight
- chiffrage
chiffrage
68,120 corpus weight
- ciblant
ciblant
68,119 corpus weight
What this shows « chercha » 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 | chercha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chercha »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chercha (IPA \ʃɛʁ.ʃa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,880 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe chercher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chercha, with forms such as "cchercha", "cehrcha", and "checrha". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "church", "cherché", "chercher", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chercha, spelled C-H-E-R-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe chercher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chercha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant la période pakistanaise, de 1947 à 1971, le régime reprit la tentative de ces réformateurs islamistes et chercha à ourdouiser le bengali de façon systématique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchercha
- cehrcha
- checrha
- chercah
- cherccha
- cherchha
- cherhca
- cherrcha
- chhercha
- chrecha
- hcercha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chercha - 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 "chercha", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).