charade
\ʃa.ʁad\
The verdict
“charade” is uncommon French (frequency #63,615 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,615
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte d’énigme qui donne à deviner un mot de plusieurs syllabes décomposé en parties dont chacune fait un mot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charade · charade · French
charade · rank #63,615 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,615
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH changeurs
Nearest frequency peer: changeurs (-2 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 « charade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chambrée
chambrée
36,389 corpus weight
- changeurs
changeurs
36,388 corpus weight
- charade
charade
36,386 corpus weight
- charivari
charivari
36,384 corpus weight
- charniers
charniers
36,383 corpus weight
- checking
checking
36,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charade is uncommon French at frequency #63,615 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ʁad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for charade, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is charade, spelled C-H-A-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte d’énigme qui donne à deviner un mot de plusieurs syllabes décomposé en parties dont chacune fait un mot.
- 2Énigme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jouer des charades, jouer aux charades.
Le reste du temps, on se contentait de jouer des charades, de souper en costumes, mais entre soi, en ne mêlant aucun étranger au petit « noyau ».
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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