Chartres
/ˈʃɑːtɹə/
"chartres" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chartres” is an uncommon English word, ranked #50,422 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #50,422
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city, the capital of Eure-et-Loir department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chartres |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃɑːtɹə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chartres” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Chartres is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈʃɑːtɹə/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,422 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for Chartres in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Chartres, from Latin Carnūtēs, name of a Gaulish tribe, from a Celtic root for “rock, stone”. The correct English form is Chartres, spelled C-H-A-R-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1A city, the capital of Eure-et-Loir department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
- 2A settlement on West Falkland, Falkland Islands, named after Edward Chartres, a naval surgeon.
- 3A surname.
Etymology
From French Chartres, from Latin Carnūtēs, name of a Gaulish tribe, from a Celtic root for “rock, stone”.
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 “Chartres”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-A-R-T-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈʃɑːtɹə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.