chérifien
\ʃe.ʁi.fjɛ̃\
The verdict
“chérifien” is uncommon French (frequency #68,916 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,916
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la famille des descendants de Mahomet par sa fille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cherifien · chérifien · French
chérifien · rank #68,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,916
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH christianisat…
Nearest frequency peer: christianisation (-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 « chérifien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chochotte
chochotte
31,088 corpus weight
- choquette
choquette
31,087 corpus weight
- christianis…
christianisation
31,086 corpus weight
- chérifien
chérifien
31,085 corpus weight
- chôme
chôme
31,084 corpus weight
- Ciara
Ciara
31,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chérifien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chérifien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃe.ʁi.fjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chérifien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chérifien is uncommon French at frequency #68,916 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃe.ʁi.fjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for chérifien in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chérifien, spelled C-H-É-R-I-F-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la famille des descendants de Mahomet par sa fille.
- 2Marocain, parce que le Maroc est dirigé par la dynastie alaouite, considérée comme issue du Prophète par Ali.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chérifien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Sénégal et dans la sous-région, l’on ne s’arrête plus sur les nombreuses actions de Cheikhna Cheikh Saad-Bouh et sur celles des membres de la sainte famille chérifienne.
Et, malgré les travaux d’une pléiade de savants et d’explorateurs qui en font depuis quelques années l’objet de leurs recherches, on peut dire que l’Empire chérifien, pour le grand public, est encore un pays à peu près inconnu.
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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