Cheshire
\tʃɛ.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“Cheshire” is uncommon French (frequency #67,373 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,373
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Comté d’Angleterre situé dans la région d’Angleterre du Nord-Ouest, dont le chef-lieu est Chester.
| 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) |
Where “Cheshire” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Cheshire is uncommon French at frequency #67,373 among 257,141 “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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Using “Cheshire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-S-H-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʃɛ.ʃœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.