Charentes
\ʃa.ʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“Charentes” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,568. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,568
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de Charente, en particulier l’ensemble des deux départements français de Charente et de Charente-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charentes · Charentes · French
Charentes · rank #16,568 · 14 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,568
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CFDT
Nearest frequency peer: CFDT (-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 « Charentes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- catch
catch
83,436 corpus weight
- caverne
caverne
83,435 corpus weight
- CFDT
CFDT
83,434 corpus weight
- Charentes
Charentes
83,433 corpus weight
- chelou
chelou
83,431 corpus weight
- Cherbourg
Cherbourg
83,430 corpus weight
What this shows « Charentes » 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 | Charentes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Charentes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Charentes (IPA \ʃa.ʁɑ̃t\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,568 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de Charente, en particulier l’ensemble des deux départements français de Charente et de Charente-Maritime.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Charentes, with forms such as "cahrentes", "ccharentes", and "chaerntes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "chartes", "Charette", "charpente", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Charentes, spelled C-H-A-R-E-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de Charente, en particulier l’ensemble des deux départements français de Charente et de Charente-Maritime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Charentes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Personne n’aboie contre les Anglais, qui détiennent les Îles normandes, et le lointain, mais clairement français, Canada, province d’outre-mer, mais aussi nettement province de France que les Charentes ou la Picardie.
Alors que l’Angoumoisine Sokhna Lacoste est à Eugene aux Mondiaux avec le relais 4x400 m féminin, les plus jeunes athlètes des deux Charentes disputent, eux, les France U18-U20 à Mulhouse (15-17 juillet).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrentes
- ccharentes
- chaerntes
- charenets
- charenntes
- charentess
- charentse
- charenttes
- charetnes
- charnetes
- charrentes
- chharentes
- chraentes
- hcarentes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Charentes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).