tchèque

\tʃɛk\

/\tʃɛk\/ adj

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The verdict

“tchèque” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,253
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Tchèques, leur pays, leur langue, leur culture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tcheque · tchèque · French

tchèque · rank #7,253 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,253
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH technicien

Nearest frequency peer: technicien (+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 « tchèque »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tchèque » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tchèque vs tchèques
88% similar
tchèque vs check
29% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tchèque
PropertyValue
Headwordtchèque
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\tʃɛk\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,253
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tchèque »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).tchèquese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « technicien » (#7,254), « sénateurs » (#7,251), « trouverez » (#7,255). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tchèque » est au #7,253. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around tchèque (IPA \tʃɛk\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,253 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif aux Tchèques, leur pays, leur langue, leur culture.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tchèque, with forms such as "cthèque", "tcchèque", and "tcheque". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tchèques", "check", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tchèque, spelled T-C-H-È-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif aux Tchèques, leur pays, leur langue, leur culture.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tchèque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. — Debout ! Debout ! Tout le monde debout ! Des policiers tchèques et quelques SS vont et viennent en criant, même s'il fait encore nuit noire.

This word in other languages

Czech(English)checo(Español)tschechisch(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cthèque
  • tcchèque
  • tcheque
  • tchhèque
  • tchqèue
  • tchèqeu
  • tchèqque
  • tchèuqe
  • tcèhque
  • thcèque
  • ttchèque

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tchèque - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cthèque2tcchèque1tcheque1tchhèque1tchqèue2tchèqeu2tchèqque1tchèuqe2
Edit distance from "tchèque"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tchèque"?
"tchèque" is spelled T-C-H-È-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʃɛk\.
What does "tchèque" mean?
As an adjective, "tchèque" means: Relatif aux Tchèques, leur pays, leur langue, leur culture.
What words are commonly confused with "tchèque"?
"tchèque" is commonly confused with "tchèques", "check". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tchèque"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tchèque" is \tʃɛk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tchèque" come from?
"tchèque" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tchèque", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

situées#7,244sergent#7,243étroite#7,266sauveur#7,240

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

savaient11 variantsrotation11 variantsarrêtent11 variantsaériennes11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list