characters
\ˈkæɹ.ək.tɚzˈ\
The verdict
“characters” is uncommon French (frequency #82,784 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,784
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de character.
Corpus desk
Index FR-characters · characters · French
characters · rank #82,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,784
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chiasson
Nearest frequency peer: Chiasson (+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 « characters »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- channels
channels
17,220 corpus weight
- chantiez
chantiez
17,219 corpus weight
- characters
characters
17,217 corpus weight
- Chiasson
Chiasson
17,216 corpus weight
- Chokri
Chokri
17,215 corpus weight
- choron
choron
17,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « characters » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | characters |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkæɹ.ək.tɚzˈ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « characters » en français
Rare enough to double-check
characters is uncommon French at frequency #82,784 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkæɹ.ək.tɚzˈ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de character.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for characters in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 French form is characters, spelled C-H-A-R-A-C-T-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de character.
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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