charbonnage
\ʃaʁ.bɔ.naʒ\
The verdict
“charbonnage” is uncommon French (frequency #73,003 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,003
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Exploitation de la houille.
| 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) |
Where “charbonnage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
charbonnage is uncommon French at frequency #73,003 among 257,141 “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.
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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Using “charbonnage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-R-B-O-N-N-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.