cherchèrent
\ʃɛʁ.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“cherchèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #63,621 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,621
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe chercher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chercherent · cherchèrent · French
cherchèrent · rank #63,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,621
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chest
Nearest frequency peer: chest (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cherchèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charniers
charniers
36,383 corpus weight
- checking
checking
36,382 corpus weight
- cherchèrent
cherchèrent
36,380 corpus weight
- chest
chest
36,379 corpus weight
- choquées
choquées
36,378 corpus weight
- chorée
chorée
36,377 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cherchèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cherchèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #63,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cherchèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cherchèrent is uncommon French at frequency #63,621 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɛʁ.ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe chercher.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cherchèrent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cherchèrent, spelled C-H-E-R-C-H-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe chercher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cherchèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils cherchèrent partout, sondant les murs, frappant aux boiseries, fouillant, refouillant ; mais pas la plus petite ouverture, pas la plus mince fissure, pas la plus étroite lézarde.
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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