charbonnières
\ʃaʁ.bɔ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“charbonnières” is uncommon French (frequency #75,495 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,495
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de charbonnier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charbonnieres · charbonnières · French
charbonnières · rank #75,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,495
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaperons
Nearest frequency peer: chaperons (-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 « charbonnières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chancelant
chancelant
24,509 corpus weight
- chantonne
chantonne
24,508 corpus weight
- chaperons
chaperons
24,507 corpus weight
- charbonnièr…
charbonnières
24,506 corpus weight
- charcuter
charcuter
24,505 corpus weight
- chatbot
chatbot
24,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charbonnières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charbonnières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.bɔ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #75,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charbonnières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charbonnières is uncommon French at frequency #75,495 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃaʁ.bɔ.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de charbonnier.".
charbonnières has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is charbonnières, spelled C-H-A-R-B-O-N-N-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de charbonnier.
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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