charançons
\ʃa.ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“charançons” is uncommon French (frequency #90,531 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,531
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de charançon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charancons · charançons · French
charançons · rank #90,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,531
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charolaise
Nearest frequency peer: charolaise (+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 « charançons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chanoinesses
chanoinesses
9,473 corpus weight
- chapelains
chapelains
9,472 corpus weight
- charançons
charançons
9,470 corpus weight
- charolaise
charolaise
9,469 corpus weight
- charton
charton
9,468 corpus weight
- Chartrain
Chartrain
9,467 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charançons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charançons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charançons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charançons is uncommon French at frequency #90,531 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de charançon.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for charançons, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is charançons, spelled C-H-A-R-A-N-Ç-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de charançon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how charançons 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.
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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