Chartres
/ˈʃɑːtɹə/
"chartres" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Chartres” is uncommon English (frequency #50,422 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,422
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the capital of Eure-et-Loir department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chartres · Chartres · English
Chartres · rank #50,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,422
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chiller
Nearest frequency peer: chiller (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Chartres”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- casted
casted
49,583 corpus weight
- CFTC
CFTC
49,581 corpus weight
- Chartres
Chartres
49,579 corpus weight
- chiller
chiller
49,578 corpus weight
- chlorinated
chlorinated
49,577 corpus weight
- clubbed
clubbed
49,576 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Chartres” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Chartres” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Chartres is uncommon English at frequency #50,422 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈʃɑːtɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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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