Cheshire
\tʃɛ.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“Cheshire” is uncommon French (frequency #67,373 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,373
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comté d’Angleterre situé dans la région d’Angleterre du Nord-Ouest, dont le chef-lieu est Chester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheshire · Cheshire · French
Cheshire · rank #67,373 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,373
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charrière
Nearest frequency peer: charrière (-2 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 « Cheshire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chanceuses
chanceuses
32,632 corpus weight
- charretier
charretier
32,631 corpus weight
- charrière
charrière
32,630 corpus weight
- Cheshire
Cheshire
32,628 corpus weight
- chroma
chroma
32,625 corpus weight
- ciller
ciller
32,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cheshire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cheshire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tʃɛ.ʃœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cheshire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cheshire is uncommon French at frequency #67,373 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tʃɛ.ʃœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Comté d’Angleterre situé dans la région d’Angleterre du Nord-Ouest, dont le chef-lieu est Chester.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cheshire in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Cheshire, spelled C-H-E-S-H-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Comté d’Angleterre situé dans la région d’Angleterre du Nord-Ouest, dont le chef-lieu est Chester.
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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