cherchés
\ʃɛʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“cherchés” is uncommon French (frequency #60,632 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,632
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe chercher.
| 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) |
Where “cherchés” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cherchés is uncommon French at frequency #60,632 among 257,141 “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.
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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Using “cherchés”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-R-C-H-É-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃɛʁ.ʃe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.