Chéreau
\ʃe.ʁo\
The verdict
“Chéreau” is uncommon French (frequency #54,476 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,476
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chereau · Chéreau · French
Chéreau · rank #54,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,476
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH châtie
Nearest frequency peer: châtie (-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 « Chéreau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chromatogra…
chromatographie
45,529 corpus weight
- chrysanthèm…
chrysanthèmes
45,528 corpus weight
- châtie
châtie
45,526 corpus weight
- Chéreau
Chéreau
45,525 corpus weight
- circo
circo
45,524 corpus weight
- classifier
classifier
45,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chéreau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chéreau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃe.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chéreau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chéreau is uncommon French at frequency #54,476 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃe.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Chéreau in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chéreau, spelled C-H-É-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chéreau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est elle que Valeria Bruni Tedeschi a choisie pour jouer Stella, un personnage qui ressemble beaucoup à l’actrice débutante qui entrait, il y a trente-cinq ans, aux Amandiers, dont l’école était dirigée par Pierre Romans et Patrice Chéreau.
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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