cherchez
\ʃɛʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“cherchez” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,411
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe chercher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cherchez · cherchez · French
cherchez · rank #4,411 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,411
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chair
Nearest frequency peer: chair (-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 « cherchez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cannes
cannes
95,593 corpus weight
- catastrophe
catastrophe
95,592 corpus weight
- chair
chair
95,591 corpus weight
- cherchez
cherchez
95,590 corpus weight
- clan
clan
95,589 corpus weight
- clip
clip
95,588 corpus weight
What this shows « cherchez » 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 | cherchez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cherchez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cherchez (IPA \ʃɛʁ.ʃe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,411 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cherchez, with forms such as "ccherchez", "cehrchez", and "checrhez". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "cherchiez", "cherché", "chercha", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cherchez, spelled C-H-E-R-C-H-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe chercher.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif du verbe chercher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cherchez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous cherchez à rompre la routine.
Cherchez à prononcer entre celui qui a gravé des canards sur les obélisques égyptiens et celui qui a bostonné pendant vingt ans avec du Bousquet, monsieur de Valois, mademoiselle Cormon, le Président du Tribunal, le Procureur du Roi, l’abbé de Sponde, madame Granson, e tutti quanti ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccherchez
- cehrchez
- checrhez
- chercchez
- chercehz
- cherchezz
- cherchhez
- cherchze
- cherhcez
- cherrchez
- chherchez
- chrechez
- hcerchez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cherchez - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).