cacharel
\ka.ʃa.ʁɛl\
The verdict
“cacharel” is uncommon French (frequency #96,714 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,714
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sarcelle d'été.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cacharel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʃa.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cacharel” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cacharel is uncommon French at frequency #96,714 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ʃa.ʁɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sarcelle d'été.".
cacharel doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cacharel, spelled C-A-C-H-A-R-E-L.
Definition
- 1Sarcelle d'été.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cacharel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-C-H-A-R-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.ʃa.ʁɛl\ (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.