Charleroi
/ˈʃɑː(ɹ)ləɹwɑː/
"charleroi" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Charleroi” is uncommon English (frequency #82,165 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,165
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The largest city of Wallonia, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Charleroi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃɑː(ɹ)ləɹwɑː/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Charleroi” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Charleroi is uncommon English at frequency #82,165 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈʃɑː(ɹ)ləɹwɑː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Charleroi, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Charleroi, from Charles (“Charles”) roi (“king”). The correct English form is Charleroi, spelled C-H-A-R-L-E-R-O-I.
Definition
- 1The largest city of Wallonia, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
- 2A borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Monongahela River, 21 miles south of Pittsburgh.
- 3A locality in the Shire of Indigo, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
Etymology
From French Charleroi, from Charles (“Charles”) roi (“king”).
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “Charleroi”
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- The one correct English spelling is C-H-A-R-L-E-R-O-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.