cherchés
\ʃɛʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“cherchés” is uncommon French (frequency #60,632 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,632
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe chercher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cherches · cherchés · French
cherchés · rank #60,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,632
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cece
Nearest frequency peer: cece (-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 « cherchés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Caylus
Caylus
39,374 corpus weight
- CCS
CCS
39,372 corpus weight
- CECA
CECA
39,371 corpus weight
- cece
cece
39,370 corpus weight
- cherchés
cherchés
39,369 corpus weight
- chocolatée
chocolatée
39,365 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cherchés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cherchés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cherchés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cherchés is uncommon French at frequency #60,632 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɛʁ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe chercher.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cherchés, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 cherchés, spelled C-H-E-R-C-H-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe chercher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cherchés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux tableaux de Raphaël perdus et cherchés avec tant de persistance par les Raphaëliques, Magus les possède !
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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