charge
/ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/noun, verb
charge is spelled C-H-A-R-G-E. The wrong spelling people search most is harge: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 116 of all searches for the word. Charge is a noun meaning “The amount of money levied for a service”. The plural of charge is charges or chargés.
How many letters and syllables are in charge?
| Letters | 6: C-H-A-R-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 105 times per million words; the 1,021st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, harge, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell charge?
Charge is spelled C-H-A-R-G-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 117 of the searches for charge in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is charge?
Charge appears 105 times per million words in written English, the 1,021st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce charge?
- UK /ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/
- UK [ˈt͡ʃʰɑːd͡ʒ]
- Australia /ˈt͡ʃäːd͡ʒ/
Charge has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-charge.wav, En-au-charge.ogg, En-us-charge.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with charge?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as charge from its last stressed vowel (/ɑdʒ/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of charge
- charges plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- charging participle, present
- charged participle, past
- chargés plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does charge mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The amount of money levied for a service.
There will be a charge of five dollars.
- 2
An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade
- 3
A forceful forward movement.
- 4
An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
two charges of manslaughter
- 5
An accusation by a person or organization.
That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
- 6
An electric charge.
- 7
The scope of someone's responsibility.
The child was in the nanny's charge.
- 8
Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
The child was a charge of the nanny.
verb
- 1
To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- 2
To assign (a debit) to an account.
Let's charge this to marketing.
- 3
To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
to charge high for goods
- 4
USTo pay on account, as by using a credit card.
Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
- 5
datedTo sell (something) at a given price.
to charge coal at $5 per unit
- 6
To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
I'm charging you with assault and battery.
- 7
To mortgage (a property).
- 8
To impute or ascribe.
noun
- 1
Ellipsis of chargé d'affaires.
noun
- 1
Ellipsis of CHARGE syndrome.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate charge?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of charge: CPT, chg, chge.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Charge in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | frais , charge , chef d’accusation, chef d’inculpation , charger , créditer |
| German | Entgelt , Sturmangriff , beauftragen , Ladung , Last , Rempeln |
| Portuguese | encargo, custo, preço , carga , acusação, denúncia |
| Spanish | cobranza, cobro , cargo , arremetida, acometida, embestida |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does charge come from?
From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).