charge
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "charge", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "charge" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "charge" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
charge is aEnglishnoun. It means: The amount of money levied for a service. Pronounced /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/. It ranks #1,012 in English word frequency. Often confused with chart and chase.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for charge is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,012 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 21 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for charge, with forms such as "cahrge", "ccharge", and "chagre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chart", "chase", "charm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 … Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is charge, spelled C-H-A-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahrge,ccharge,chagre,chareg,chargge,charrge,chharge,chrage,hcarge
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for charge
Misspelling Variants of "charge"
Frequency rank: #1,012 in English
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