charbonnière
\ʃaʁ.bɔ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“charbonnière” is uncommon French (frequency #57,822 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,822
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui vend du charbon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charbonniere · charbonnière · French
charbonnière · rank #57,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,822
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH changeants
Nearest frequency peer: changeants (-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 « charbonnière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chakras
chakras
42,183 corpus weight
- chalutiers
chalutiers
42,182 corpus weight
- changeants
changeants
42,180 corpus weight
- charbonnière
charbonnière
42,179 corpus weight
- Chassaigne
Chassaigne
42,178 corpus weight
- chopes
chopes
42,176 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charbonnière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charbonnière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.bɔ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charbonnière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charbonnière is uncommon French at frequency #57,822 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃaʁ.bɔ.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for charbonnière, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is charbonnière, spelled C-H-A-R-B-O-N-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui vend du charbon.
- 2Épouse d’un charbonnier.
- 3Loge charbonnière, c’est-à-dire un emplacement, dans un bois ou forêt, sur lequel l’on fait le charbon de bois par cuisson de la meule de charbonnette.
- 4Grande voile d’étai.
- 5Seau à charbon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charbonnière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vis là-bas depuis dix ans comme un sauvage, au milieu des scieurs de long et des charbonniers… Mais, hélas !… pas de charbonnières ! pas de femmes !
Mᵐᵉ Paulin m’a fait une seconde visite, en grand apparat : nu-tête, mais des mitaines noires, une chaîne de cou dorée, l’air d’une charbonnière glorieuse.
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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