cacharel
\ka.ʃa.ʁɛl\
The verdict
“cacharel” is uncommon French (frequency #96,714 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,714
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sarcelle d'été.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cacharel · cacharel · French
cacharel · rank #96,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,714
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cadis
Nearest frequency peer: cadis (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cacharel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bédarieux
Bédarieux
3,289 corpus weight
- cacharel
cacharel
3,287 corpus weight
- cadis
cadis
3,286 corpus weight
- caio
caio
3,285 corpus weight
- calent
calent
3,284 corpus weight
- camba
camba
3,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cacharel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « cacharel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cacharel is uncommon French at frequency #96,714 among 8,609 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cacharel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean Bousquet, trente-neuf ans, sportif, nîmois et les pieds bien posés sur terre, a choisi pour nom un mot de son terroir, « Cacharel » qui désigne le canard sauvage de Camargue.
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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