Chara
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,702
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Chara is aFrenchname. It means: Constellation sous la queue de la Grande Ourse. Often confused with CHR and cra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Chara is 5 letters long, classified as aname. Corpus data places it at rank #41,702 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Chara, with forms such as "cahra", "cchara", and "chaar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CHR", "cra", "cher", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Chara, spelled C-H-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Constellation sous la queue de la Grande Ourse.
- 2Autre nom de Beta Canum Venaticorum (β CVn / β Canum Venaticorum), la deuxième étoile la plus brillante de la constellation des Chiens de chasse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahra,cchara,chaar,charra,chhara,chraa,hcara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Chara
Misspelling Variants of "Chara"
Frequency rank: #41,702 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: