charabia
\ʃa.ʁa.bja\
The verdict
“charabia” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,790. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,790
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patois auvergnat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charabia · charabia · French
charabia · rank #42,790 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #42,790
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaland
Nearest frequency peer: chaland (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « charabia »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cartésien
cartésien
57,214 corpus weight
- chaland
chaland
57,212 corpus weight
- charabia
charabia
57,211 corpus weight
- chaste
chaste
57,210 corpus weight
- chaumières
chaumières
57,209 corpus weight
- cherchiez
cherchiez
57,208 corpus weight
What this shows « charabia » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charabia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁa.bja\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charabia »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around charabia (IPA \ʃa.ʁa.bja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,790 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for charabia, with forms such as "cahrabia", "ccharabia", and "chaarbia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "charia", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is charabia, spelled C-H-A-R-A-B-I-A.
Definition
- 1Patois auvergnat.
- 2Qualifie un Auvergnat.
- 3Langage incompréhensible ou qui parait inintelligible parce qu'il est incorrect, inconnu, ou déconcertant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charabia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La soirée de la bourrée lui a complètement tourné la tête, elle s’est grisée avec son succès ; restant dans la veine trouvée, s’entêtant à suivre ce filon, elle parle charabia tout le temps, elle appelle les gens mouchu et monchieu. Mon père à la fin lui interdit formellement l’auvergnat.
Toutes ses affaires se traitaient en patois d’Auvergne, dit Charabia.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrabia
- ccharabia
- chaarbia
- charabai
- charabbia
- charaiba
- charbaia
- charrabia
- chharabia
- chraabia
- hcarabia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charabia - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "charabia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).