chérubins
\ʃe.ʁy.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“chérubins” is uncommon French (frequency #52,568 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,568
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de chérubin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cherubins · chérubins · French
chérubins · rank #52,568 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,568
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH châtelaine
Nearest frequency peer: châtelaine (-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 « chérubins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chas
chas
47,437 corpus weight
- chicha
chicha
47,436 corpus weight
- châtelaine
châtelaine
47,434 corpus weight
- chérubins
chérubins
47,433 corpus weight
- cinoche
cinoche
47,431 corpus weight
- clinicien
clinicien
47,430 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chérubins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chérubins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃe.ʁy.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chérubins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chérubins is uncommon French at frequency #52,568 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃe.ʁy.bɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de chérubin.".
chérubins has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chérubins, spelled C-H-É-R-U-B-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de chérubin.
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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