cherchiez
\ʃɛʁ.ʃje\
The verdict
“cherchiez” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,793
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chercher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cherchiez · cherchiez · French
cherchiez · rank #42,793 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,793
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaumières
Nearest frequency peer: chaumières (-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 « cherchiez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charabia
charabia
57,211 corpus weight
- chaste
chaste
57,210 corpus weight
- chaumières
chaumières
57,209 corpus weight
- cherchiez
cherchiez
57,208 corpus weight
- chichi
chichi
57,207 corpus weight
- chronos
chronos
57,206 corpus weight
What this shows « cherchiez » 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 | cherchiez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.ʃje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cherchiez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around cherchiez (IPA \ʃɛʁ.ʃje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,793 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cherchiez, with forms such as "ccherchiez", "cehrchiez", and "checrhiez". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cherché", "chercher", "cherchez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cherchiez, spelled C-H-E-R-C-H-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chercher.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe chercher.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccherchiez
- cehrchiez
- checrhiez
- chercchiez
- chercheiz
- cherchhiez
- cherchiezz
- cherchize
- chercihez
- cherhciez
- cherrchiez
- chherchiez
- chrechiez
- hcerchiez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cherchiez - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cherchiez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).