chers

[ʃɛʁ]

/[ʃɛʁ]/ adj

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The verdict

“chers” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,521
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cher.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chers · chers · French

chers · rank #3,521 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,521
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chanteur

Nearest frequency peer: chanteur (-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 « chers »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chers » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chers vs CRS
0% similar
chers vs CHR
0% similar
chers vs chez
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chers
PropertyValue
Headwordchers
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ʃɛʁ]
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,521
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chers »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).chersse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « chanteur » (#3,520), « chevalier » (#3,522), « chanter » (#3,519). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chers » est au #3,521. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around chers (IPA [ʃɛʁ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,521 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cher.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for chers, with forms such as "cchers", "cehrs", and "cherrs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CRS", "CHR", "chez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chers, spelled C-H-E-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de cher.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how chers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et en quelle langue, sinon précisément une langue truandisée, parlent les frérots des flottes de la Baltique et de la mer Noire chers à Vichnevski et à Pogodine ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cchers
  • cehrs
  • cherrs
  • cherss
  • chesr
  • chhers
  • chres
  • hcers

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chers - 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.

cchers1cehrs2cherrs1cherss1chesr2chhers1chres2hcers2
Edit distance from "chers"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chers"?
"chers" is spelled C-H-E-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃɛʁ].
What does "chers" mean?
As an adjective, "chers" means: Masculin pluriel de cher.
What words are commonly confused with "chers"?
"chers" is commonly confused with "CRS", "CHR", "chez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chers"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chers" is [ʃɛʁ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chers" come from?
"chers" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chers", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fleur#3,535Roger#3,502motif#3,548météo#3,550

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

diable8 variantsdirige8 variantsamener8 variantsamende8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list