cherté
\ʃɛʁ.te\
The verdict
“cherté” is uncommon French (frequency #59,159 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,159
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prix qui excède de beaucoup le prix ordinaire des choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cherte · cherté · French
cherté · rank #59,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,159
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chenu
Nearest frequency peer: chenu (-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 « cherté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chaix
Chaix
40,846 corpus weight
- chauffes
chauffes
40,845 corpus weight
- chenu
chenu
40,843 corpus weight
- cherté
cherté
40,842 corpus weight
- chiisme
chiisme
40,841 corpus weight
- châtre
châtre
40,839 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cherté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cherté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cherté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cherté is uncommon French at frequency #59,159 among 8,609 “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
- 1Prix qui excède de beaucoup le prix ordinaire des choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cherté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les veuves pensionnées forment ici toute l’aristocratie ; elles se tiennent bien, balaient souvent leur chambre, bavardent avec leurs amies de la cherté de la viande et du chou : elles […].
Décrire la société gardoise à la sortie de la crise quarante-huitarde, entre 1851 et 1853, c'est tenter de saisir des milieux sociaux dans une phase mouvante, phase de reprise économique d'abord lente, puis plus assurée, de hausse des prix ou, comme on dit alors, de «cherté de vie», période également où se dessine un bilan des perturbations sociales appor…
This word in other languages
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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