chardonnet
\ʃaʁ.dɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“chardonnet” is uncommon French (frequency #78,254 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,254
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fort montant de bois des portails et des portes cochères du coté pivotant. Il se termine par un pivot dont la partie basse s'engage dans la crapaudine et la partie haute dans la bourdonnière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chardonnet · chardonnet · French
chardonnet · rank #78,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,254
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Charolles
Nearest frequency peer: Charolles (+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 « chardonnet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Challe
Challe
21,750 corpus weight
- chamailleri…
chamailleries
21,749 corpus weight
- chardonnet
chardonnet
21,747 corpus weight
- Charolles
Charolles
21,746 corpus weight
- cheer
cheer
21,745 corpus weight
- Chemie
Chemie
21,744 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chardonnet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chardonnet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.dɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chardonnet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chardonnet is uncommon French at frequency #78,254 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃaʁ.dɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chardonnet, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chardonnet, spelled C-H-A-R-D-O-N-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Fort montant de bois des portails et des portes cochères du coté pivotant. Il se termine par un pivot dont la partie basse s'engage dans la crapaudine et la partie haute dans la bourdonnière.
- 2Variante graphique ancienne du cépage chardonnay.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chardonnet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut avoir attention, dans les grandes portes sur-tout, de placer diagonalement une suite de bracons, ou plutôt une guette entaillée dans les entre-toises, & qui prendront de l’angle de la traverse supérieure joignant le poteau délardé, & viendroit s'appuyer au bas du poteau du chardonnet joignant la traverse inférieure ; […]
Des plantations faites à cette époque ont très bien réussi. On ne connaît, à proprement parler, que deux plants, le bourguignon pour les vins rouges, et le chardonnet pour les blancs.
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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