charbonnage
\ʃaʁ.bɔ.naʒ\
The verdict
“charbonnage” is uncommon French (frequency #73,003 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,003
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exploitation de la houille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charbonnage · charbonnage · French
charbonnage · rank #73,003 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,003
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charming
Nearest frequency peer: charming (+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 « charbonnage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Champsaur
Champsaur
27,001 corpus weight
- changerons
changerons
27,000 corpus weight
- charbonnage
charbonnage
26,998 corpus weight
- charming
charming
26,997 corpus weight
- chauffards
chauffards
26,996 corpus weight
- chemisette
chemisette
26,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charbonnage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charbonnage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.bɔ.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #73,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charbonnage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charbonnage is uncommon French at frequency #73,003 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃaʁ.bɔ.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
charbonnage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is charbonnage, spelled C-H-A-R-B-O-N-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Exploitation de la houille.
- 2Les mines de houille en exploitation.
- 3Société d'exploitation d'une mine de charbon
- 4Action de s’approvisionner en charbon pour les machines.
- 5Droit concédé par un noble à un roturier pour lui permettre l'exploitation d'une mine de charbon.
- 6Petites branches employées pour la fabrication du charbon de bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charbonnage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et pourtant il serait difficile de ne pas même dire un seul mot de ces petits charbonnages que j'ai visités dans le département : mines de Brassac, au sud, comprenant La Combelle et Charbonnier; mines de Messeix, au sud-ouest, près de Bourg-Lastic; mines de Saint-Éloy, au nord.
En cette fin d'année 1937, des ateliers de flottage sont en projet ou en cours d'installation dans plusieurs charbonnages français.
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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