cherté

\ʃɛʁ.te\

/\ʃɛʁ.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“cherté” is uncommon French (frequency #59,159 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,159
frequency rank, French
257,141
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prix qui excède de beaucoup le prix ordinaire des choses.

Key facts for cherté
PropertyValue
Headwordcherté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɛʁ.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#59,159
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cherté” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). cherté lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cherté is uncommon French at frequency #59,159 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛʁ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prix qui excède de beaucoup le prix ordinaire des choses.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cherté in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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 cherté, spelled C-H-E-R-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prix qui excède de beaucoup le prix ordinaire des choses.

This word in other languages

expensiveness(English)carestía(Español)Teuerung(Deutsch)

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 "cherté"?
"cherté" is spelled C-H-E-R-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɛʁ.te\.
What does "cherté" mean?
As a noun, "cherté" means: Prix qui excède de beaucoup le prix ordinaire des choses.
How do you pronounce "cherté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cherté" is \ʃɛʁ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cherté" come from?
"cherté" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “cherté”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-R-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ʃɛʁ.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list