Charlotte
/ˈʃɑː.lət/
"charlotte" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Charlotte” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #4,926 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #4,926
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from French.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Charlotte |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃɑː.lət/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Charlotte” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Charlotte is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʃɑː.lət/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,926 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Charlotte, with forms such as "cahrlotte", "ccharlotte", and "chalrotte". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Charlotte in the 17th century, a female diminutive form of Charles, from Middle High German Karl, which came from the Germanic *karlaz. The civil parish is named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818). Coined by British-Dutch survey… The correct English form is Charlotte, spelled C-H-A-R-L-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name from French.
- 2Numerous places:
- 3Numerous places:
- 4Numerous places:
- 5Numerous places:
- 6Numerous places:
Etymology
From French Charlotte in the 17th century, a female diminutive form of Charles, from Middle High German Karl, which came from the Germanic *karlaz. The civil parish is named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahrlotte,ccharlotte,chalrotte,charllotte,charlote,charlotet,charltote,charoltte,charrlotte,chharlotte,chralotte,hcarlotte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Charlotte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Charlotte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-A-R-L-O-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈʃɑː.lət/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.