chercheur
\ʃɛʁ.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“chercheur” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,841. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,841
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui cherche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chercheur · chercheur · French
chercheur · rank #5,841 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,841
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chauffage
Nearest frequency peer: chauffage (-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 « chercheur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- barrière
barrière
94,163 corpus weight
- cc
cc
94,162 corpus weight
- chauffage
chauffage
94,161 corpus weight
- chercheur
chercheur
94,160 corpus weight
- coins
coins
94,159 corpus weight
- collaborate…
collaborateurs
94,158 corpus weight
What this shows « chercheur » 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 | chercheur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.ʃœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chercheur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around chercheur (IPA \ʃɛʁ.ʃœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,841 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for chercheur, with forms such as "cchercheur", "cehrcheur", and "checrheur". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "cherchez", "chercheurs", "chercheuse", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chercheur, spelled C-H-E-R-C-H-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui cherche.
- 2Esprit curieux poursuivant sans cesse de nouvelles découvertes.
- 3Homme, qui seul ou membre d’une équipe, se consacre à la recherche scientifique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chercheur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’apologue du lampadaire est paraît-il bien connu des chercheurs : un type qui a perdu ses clés explore en vain les dessous d’un lampadaire en pleine nuit. Pourquoi chercher seulement là ? Parce que c’est le seul endroit éclairé.
Chercheur d’or, chercheur d’aventures, chercheur de querelles.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchercheur
- cehrcheur
- checrheur
- cherccheur
- chercehur
- chercheru
- chercheurr
- cherchheur
- cherchuer
- cherhceur
- cherrcheur
- chhercheur
- chrecheur
- hcercheur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chercheur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).