charlady
/ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/
"charlady" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“charlady” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-charlady · charlady · English
charlady · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charlady |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “charlady” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
charlady is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.".
charlady doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From char (“chore”) + lady. The correct English form is charlady, spelled C-H-A-R-L-A-D-Y.
Definition
- 1A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charlady appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Then we'll move." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream to the safety of the area below.
MOST of the charladies to be met with in novels and plays are comic characters. […] This ridicule of a whole class does not mean that novelists and dramatists hate charladies, but only that the novelist and dramatist is never quite master of his own book or his own play.
Etymology
From char (“chore”) + lady.
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.
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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.