chercheure
\ʃɛʁ.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“chercheure” is uncommon French (frequency #88,454 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,454
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui se consacre à la recherche scientifique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chercheure · chercheure · French
chercheure · rank #88,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,454
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cheminent
Nearest frequency peer: cheminent (-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 « chercheure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chalk
chalk
11,551 corpus weight
- chaînons
chaînons
11,550 corpus weight
- cheminent
cheminent
11,548 corpus weight
- chercheure
chercheure
11,547 corpus weight
- chibi
chibi
11,546 corpus weight
- chloroquine
chloroquine
11,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chercheure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chercheure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.ʃœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chercheure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chercheure is uncommon French at frequency #88,454 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛʁ.ʃœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme qui se consacre à la recherche scientifique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chercheure in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chercheure, spelled C-H-E-R-C-H-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui se consacre à la recherche scientifique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chercheure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne faudrait pas passer sous silence le fait que les chercheurs et chercheures francophones se rencontrent aussi dans le cadre de colloques annuels et autres activités organisées par les centres de recherches dans les provinces.
Les expériences des femmes, en particulier, commencent à être mises au jour, notamment grâce aux récits de vie recueillis par des chercheures. Urvashi Butalia a récemment fait état de recherches en cours, qui consistent à recueillir les récit des femmes […].
Synonyms
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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