church
\t͡ʃɝt͡ʃ\
The verdict
“church” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,482. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,482
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Église.
Corpus desk
Index FR-church · church · French
church · rank #23,482 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,482
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chrétienté
Nearest frequency peer: chrétienté (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « church »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chiite
chiite
76,522 corpus weight
- children
children
76,521 corpus weight
- chrétienté
chrétienté
76,520 corpus weight
- church
church
76,519 corpus weight
- circoncision
circoncision
76,517 corpus weight
- Clemenceau
Clemenceau
76,516 corpus weight
What this shows « church » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | church |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \t͡ʃɝt͡ʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « church »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around church (IPA \t͡ʃɝt͡ʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,482 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for church, with forms such as "cchurch", "chhurch", and "chruch". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "crunch", "chuck", "cherché", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is church, spelled C-H-U-R-C-H.
Definition
- 1Église.
- 2Culte dans l’église.
- 3Chaire (ensemble des prédicateurs).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how church appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream …
Church is at nine o'clock.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchurch
- chhurch
- chruch
- chucrh
- churcch
- churchh
- churhc
- churrch
- cuhrch
- hcurch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of church - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "church", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).