charcuter
\ʃaʁ.ky.te\
The verdict
“charcuter” is uncommon French (frequency #75,496 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,496
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Préparer pour en faire de la charcuterie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charcuter · charcuter · French
charcuter · rank #75,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,496
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charbonnières
Nearest frequency peer: charbonnières (-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 « charcuter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- chaudronnier
chaudronnier
24,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charcuter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charcuter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.ky.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charcuter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charcuter is uncommon French at frequency #75,496 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃaʁ.ky.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for charcuter, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is charcuter, spelled C-H-A-R-C-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Préparer pour en faire de la charcuterie.
- 2Découper maladroitement de la viande.
- 3Taillader maladroitement les chairs.
- 4Couper en morceaux, diviser de façon grossière et inappropriée.
- 5Détruire sans méthode, dénaturer a avec quasi-acharnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charcuter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toute cette viande à saler, à charcuter, ces pâtés et ces grotillons à cuire et mettre en pots, lui avaient soulevé l’estomac.
Weiss a tué Roger Deutsch, il ne s’est pas contenté de charcuter son cadavre.
This word in other languages
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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