charge de travail

/\ʃaʁʒ də tʁa.vaj\/ noun

The verdict

“charge de travail” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Quantité de travail à réaliser dans un délai donné, pour une personne, une équipe ou une organisation.

Key facts for charge de travail
PropertyValue
Headwordcharge de travail
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃaʁʒ də tʁa.vaj\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “charge de travail” sits in French frequency

charge de travail falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for charge de travail is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃaʁʒ də tʁa.vaj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for charge de travail in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is charge de travail, spelled C-H-A-R-G-E- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quantité de travail à réaliser dans un délai donné, pour une personne, une équipe ou une organisation.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des exigences physiques et/ou cognitives imposées par une tâche à une personne en situation, et effort perçu pour y faire face.

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "charge de travail"?
"charge de travail" is spelled C-H-A-R-G-E- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃaʁʒ də tʁa.vaj\.
What does "charge de travail" mean?
As a noun, "charge de travail" means: Quantité de travail à réaliser dans un délai donné, pour une personne, une équipe ou une organisation.
How do you pronounce "charge de travail"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "charge de travail" is \ʃaʁʒ də tʁa.vaj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "charge de travail" come from?
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Using “charge de travail”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-R-G-E- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ʃaʁʒ də tʁa.vaj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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