charcuterie
\ʃaʁ.ky.tʁi\
The verdict
“charcuterie” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,477
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Activité du charcutier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charcuterie · charcuterie · French
charcuterie · rank #19,477 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,477
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chanoines
Nearest frequency peer: chanoines (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « charcuterie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- celtique
celtique
80,527 corpus weight
- certitudes
certitudes
80,526 corpus weight
- chanoines
chanoines
80,525 corpus weight
- charcuterie
charcuterie
80,524 corpus weight
- chômeur
chômeur
80,522 corpus weight
- citons
citons
80,521 corpus weight
What this shows « charcuterie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charcuterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.ky.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #19,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charcuterie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around charcuterie (IPA \ʃaʁ.ky.tʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,477 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for charcuterie, with forms such as "cahrcuterie", "ccharcuterie", and "chacruterie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "charcuteries", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is charcuterie, spelled C-H-A-R-C-U-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Activité du charcutier.
- 2Boutique où se fait le commerce du charcutier.
- 3Viande de porc préparée par les charcutiers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charcuterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une espèce qui a donné lieu à un arrêt de la Cour de Lyon du 5 mai 1966 (D., 1966.547) il était reproché à un charcutier d'avoir confectionné des produits de charcuterie, en l’espèce saucissons, saucisses ou godiveaux, contenant des matières grasses supérieures à un taux de 50%, ce qui l’avait mis en l’état infractionnel, eu égard aux usages locaux,…
L’équipe montre pour la première fois, in vivo chez le rat, qu'une charcuterie modèle riche en hème (…), salée, additionnée de nitrites, cuite et oxydée était promotrice du développement du cancer colorectal.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrcuterie
- ccharcuterie
- chacruterie
- charccuterie
- charctuerie
- charcuetrie
- charcuteire
- charcuterei
- charcuterrie
- charcutreie
- charcutterie
- charrcuterie
- charucterie
- chharcuterie
- chracuterie
- hcarcuterie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charcuterie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).