free of charge
/fɹiː ʌv t͡ʃʰɑɹd͡ʒ/
"free-of-charge" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“free of charge” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not requiring any payment.
Corpus desk
Index EN-free-of-charge · free of charge · English
free of charge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | free of charge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /fɹiː ʌv t͡ʃʰɑɹd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “free of charge” in English
Rare enough to double-check
free of charge is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /fɹiː ʌv t͡ʃʰɑɹd͡ʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not requiring any payment.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for free of charge, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is free of charge, spelled F-R-E-E- -O-F- -C-H-A-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Not requiring any payment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how free of charge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Buy two and pay for just one – the other is free of charge.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.