charger
\ʃaʁ.ʒe\
The verdict
“charger” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,432 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #5,432
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Garnir d’une charge.
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 | charger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “charger” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for charger is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃaʁ.ʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,432 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 24 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for charger, with forms such as "cahrger", "ccharger", and "chagrer". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "charte", "charme", "Charles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is charger, spelled C-H-A-R-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Garnir d’une charge.
- 2Joindre le poids des matériaux nécessaires pour contenir l’effort.
- 3Accabler, en parlant des coups, des injures, des opprobres, des malédictions.
- 4Prendre quelque chose sur sa conscience.
- 5Accuser.
- 6Mettre une chose dans sa mémoire, s’appliquer sérieusement à la retenir.
- 7Exagérer le montant des frais dans un compte, etc.
- 8Facturer.
- 9Peser sur.
- 10Mettre avec profusion certaines choses sur une autre.
- 11Imposer une charge, une condition onéreuse.
- 12Déposer contre quelqu’un, dire des choses qui tendent à le faire condamner.
- 13Mettre dans une arme à feu ce qu’il faut de poudre, de plomb, etc., pour tirer un coup.
- 14Garnir, pourvoir de quelque chose.
- 15Charger une lettre, un paquet, y insérer des billets de banque, des valeurs et en faire une déclaration au bureau de poste envoyeur.
- 16Représenter avec exagération les traits, la figure d’une personne, pour la rendre ridicule, sans qu’elle cesse d’être reconnaissable.
- 17Exagérer avec malignité les défauts de quelqu’un.
- 18Faire toute exagération en matière d’art ou de littérature.
- 19Marcher vers l’ennemi et l’attaquer avec impétuosité.
- 20Donner commission, donner ordre pour l’exécution de quelque chose, pour la conduite de quelque affaire.
- 21Prendre le soin, la conduite de quelque chose.
- 22Prendre le soin, la conduite de quelqu’un.
- 23Se couvrir, en parlant du ciel et des nuages.
- 24Transférer des données, par exemple fichier ou un programme, vers la mémoire vive d’un ordinateur à partir d’une mémoire auxiliaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahrger,ccharger,chagrer,charegr,chargerr,chargger,chargre,charrger,chharger,chrager,hcarger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charger - 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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Using “charger”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-R-G-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃaʁ.ʒe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “charte” - see the side-by-side comparison. charger vs charte
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.