charades
\ʃa.ʁad\
The verdict
“charades” is uncommon French (frequency #95,683 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,683
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de charade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charades · charades · French
charades · rank #95,683 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,683
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chapin
Nearest frequency peer: chapin (-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 « charades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chamaille
chamaille
4,321 corpus weight
- champel
champel
4,320 corpus weight
- chapin
chapin
4,319 corpus weight
- charades
charades
4,318 corpus weight
- charment
charment
4,317 corpus weight
- chatière
chatière
4,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charades is uncommon French at frequency #95,683 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ʁad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de charade.".
charades doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is charades, spelled C-H-A-R-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de charade.
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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