charge
/t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/
"charge" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“charge” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,012. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,012
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The amount of money levied for a service.
Corpus desk
Index EN-charge · charge · English
charge · rank #1,012 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,012
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH century
Nearest frequency peer: century (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “charge”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- y
y
98,992 corpus weight
- album
album
98,991 corpus weight
- century
century
98,990 corpus weight
- charge
charge
98,989 corpus weight
- cold
cold
98,988 corpus weight
- create
create
98,987 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “charge” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | charge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “charge” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around charge (IPA /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,012 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 21 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for charge, with forms such as "cahrge", "ccharge", and "chagre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chart", "chase", "charm", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós Proto-Celtic *karros Gaulish *karrosbor. Late Latin carrus Late Latin -ico Late Latin carricō Late Latin carricāre Old French chargierder. Middle English chargen … The correct English form is charge, spelled C-H-A-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1The amount of money levied for a service.
- 2An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
- 3A forceful forward movement.
- 4An accusation.
- 5An accusation.
- 6An electric charge.
- 7The scope of someone's responsibility.
- 8Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- 9A load or burden; cargo.
- 10An instruction.
- 11A mortgage.
- 12An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- 13A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- 14A measured amount of explosive.
- 15An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- 16A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- 17A sort of plaster or ointment.
- 18Weight; import; value.
- 19A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
- 20An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- 21Cannabis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There will be a charge of five dollars.
Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós Proto-Celtic *karros Gaulish *karrosbor. Late Latin carrus Late Latin -ico Late Latin carricō Late Latin carricāre Old French chargierder. Middle English chargen English charge From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrge
- ccharge
- chagre
- chareg
- chargge
- charrge
- chharge
- chrage
- hcarge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charge - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "charge", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "charge". Here's where to go from here.
- "charge" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "chart". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,012 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
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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.