chercher
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#717
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
chercher is aFrenchverb. It means: Se donner du mouvement, du soin ou de la peine pour trouver quelqu’un ou quelque chose. Pronounced \ʃɛʁ.ʃe\. It ranks #717 in French word frequency. Often confused with cherchez and chercheur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chercher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chercher is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛʁ.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #717 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for chercher, with forms such as "cchercher", "cehrcher", and "checrher". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "cherchez", "chercheur", "cherchera", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chercher, spelled C-H-E-R-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se donner du mouvement, du soin ou de la peine pour trouver quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 2Chercher à se connaître ; faire une introspection de son âme.
- 3Se comporter comme pour essayer de trouver, en parlant de choses inanimées.
- 4Essayer de se procurer quelqu’un ou quelque chose, faire des efforts pour obtenir un certain résultat.
- 5Manquer de naturel, rechercher.
- 6Quand il est précédé du verbe aller, envoyer ou venir il signifie souvent aller trouver, venir trouver quelqu’un ou quelque chose, et se dit tant au propre qu’au figuré.
- 7Aller ou venir auprès d’une personne pour la conduire ensuite quelque part, ou pour l’avertir de s’y rendre.
- 8Aller en un lieu pour y prendre ou y recevoir quelque chose.
- 9Provoquer, chercher la bataille, vouloir se battre, vouloir le conflit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchercher,cehrcher,checrher,cherccher,chercehr,chercherr,cherchher,cherchre,cherhcer,cherrcher,chhercher,chrecher,hcercher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chercher
Misspelling Variants of "chercher"
Frequency rank: #717 in French
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Nearby French words
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