chérissons
\ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“chérissons” is uncommon French (frequency #93,595 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,595
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de chérir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cherissons · chérissons · French
chérissons · rank #93,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,595
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chouannerie
Nearest frequency peer: chouannerie (-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 « chérissons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chiné
chiné
6,410 corpus weight
- chlorés
chlorés
6,408 corpus weight
- chouannerie
chouannerie
6,407 corpus weight
- chérissons
chérissons
6,406 corpus weight
- circonstanc…
circonstancielle
6,405 corpus weight
- cistercienn…
cisterciennes
6,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chérissons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chérissons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chérissons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chérissons is uncommon French at frequency #93,595 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃe.ʁi.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
chérissons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chérissons, spelled C-H-É-R-I-S-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de chérir.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de chérir.
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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