charançon
\ʃa.ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“charançon” is uncommon French (frequency #79,147 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,147
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coléoptère qui ronge les blés et autres grains, dans les greniers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charancon · charançon · French
charançon · rank #79,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,147
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chanzy
Nearest frequency peer: Chanzy (-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 « charançon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CCG
CCG
20,857 corpus weight
- Cers
Cers
20,856 corpus weight
- Chanzy
Chanzy
20,855 corpus weight
- charançon
charançon
20,854 corpus weight
- Charybde
Charybde
20,852 corpus weight
- chasubles
chasubles
20,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charançon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charançon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charançon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charançon is uncommon French at frequency #79,147 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coléoptère qui ronge les blés et autres grains, dans les greniers.".
charançon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is charançon, spelled C-H-A-R-A-N-Ç-O-N.
Definition
- 1Coléoptère qui ronge les blés et autres grains, dans les greniers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charançon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mes archives de chasseur naturaliste font foi du contenu de son gésier. On y trouve tout le petit peuple des guérets : larves et charançons de toutes espèces, criquets, opatres, cassides, chrysomèles, grillons, forficules, fourmis, araignées, cloportes, hélices, iules et tant d’autres.
J’allais chercher le sac contenant les flageolets, il était percé de mille petits trous et il grouillait de charançons. Adieu, beaux rêves de nourritures fastueuses ! Il fallut tout jeter.
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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