cherchait
\ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“cherchait” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,162. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,162
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chercher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cherchait · cherchait · French
cherchait · rank #7,162 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,162
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chants
Nearest frequency peer: chants (-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 « cherchait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bénévoles
bénévoles
92,842 corpus weight
- cahiers
cahiers
92,841 corpus weight
- chants
chants
92,840 corpus weight
- cherchait
cherchait
92,839 corpus weight
- Chirac
Chirac
92,838 corpus weight
- clause
clause
92,837 corpus weight
What this shows « cherchait » 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 | cherchait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cherchait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around cherchait (IPA \ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,162 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chercher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cherchait, with forms such as "ccherchait", "cehrchait", and "checrhait". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "cherchent", "cherchant", "chercherait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cherchait, spelled C-H-E-R-C-H-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chercher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cherchait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Reine de la Nuit, au début était une mère qui cherchait partout sa fille persécutée par un méchant magicien, elle devient, en route, une incarnation des puissances occultes et malfaisantes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccherchait
- cehrchait
- checrhait
- chercahit
- chercchait
- cherchaitt
- cherchati
- cherchhait
- cherchiat
- cherhcait
- cherrchait
- chherchait
- chrechait
- hcerchait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cherchait - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).