schah
\ʃa\
The verdict
“schah” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de chah.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schah · schah · French
schah · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « schah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
schah is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de chah.".
schah doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is schah, spelled S-C-H-A-H.
Definition
- 1Variante de chah.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— C’est le schah de Perse qui voyage incognito.
« On tira de prison un condamné au pal. Le Schah lui ordonna d’avaler une coupe du breuvage inconnu. »
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.