charger

/\ʃaʁ.ʒe\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,432

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

charger is aFrenchverb. It means: Garnir d’une charge. Pronounced \ʃaʁ.ʒe\. It ranks #5,432 in French word frequency. Often confused with charte and charme.

Key facts for charger
PropertyValue
Headwordcharger
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʃaʁ.ʒe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,432
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of charger in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for charger is 7 letters long, classified as averb, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for charger, with forms such as "cahrger", "ccharger", and "chagrer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 charger, spelled C-H-A-R-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Garnir d’une charge.
  2. 2
    Joindre le poids des matériaux nécessaires pour contenir l’effort.
  3. 3
    Accabler, en parlant des coups, des injures, des opprobres, des malédictions.
  4. 4
    Prendre quelque chose sur sa conscience.
  5. 5
    Accuser.
  6. 6
    Mettre une chose dans sa mémoire, s’appliquer sérieusement à la retenir.
  7. 7
    Exagérer le montant des frais dans un compte, etc.
  8. 8
    Facturer.
  9. 9
    Peser sur.
  10. 10
    Mettre avec profusion certaines choses sur une autre.
  11. 11
    Imposer une charge, une condition onéreuse.
  12. 12
    Déposer contre quelqu’un, dire des choses qui tendent à le faire condamner.
  13. 13
    Mettre dans une arme à feu ce qu’il faut de poudre, de plomb, etc., pour tirer un coup.
  14. 14
    Garnir, pourvoir de quelque chose.
  15. 15
    Charger une lettre, un paquet, y insérer des billets de banque, des valeurs et en faire une déclaration au bureau de poste envoyeur.
  16. 16
    Représenter avec exagération les traits, la figure d’une personne, pour la rendre ridicule, sans qu’elle cesse d’être reconnaissable.
  17. 17
    Exagérer avec malignité les défauts de quelqu’un.
  18. 18
    Faire toute exagération en matière d’art ou de littérature.
  19. 19
    Marcher vers l’ennemi et l’attaquer avec impétuosité.
  20. 20
    Donner commission, donner ordre pour l’exécution de quelque chose, pour la conduite de quelque affaire.
  21. 21
    Prendre le soin, la conduite de quelque chose.
  22. 22
    Prendre le soin, la conduite de quelqu’un.
  23. 23
    Se couvrir, en parlant du ciel et des nuages.
  24. 24
    Transférer des données, par exemple fichier ou un programme, vers la mémoire vive d’un ordinateur à partir d’une mémoire auxiliaire.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cahrger,ccharger,chagrer,charegr,chargerr,chargger,chargre,charrger,chharger,chrager,hcarger

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for charger

Misspelling Variants of "charger"

cahrger7ccharger8chagrer7charegr7chargerr8chargger8chargre7charrger8
Misspelling Variants of "charger"

Frequency rank: #5,432 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "charger"?
"charger" is spelled C-H-A-R-G-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃaʁ.ʒe\.
What does "charger" mean?
As a verb, "charger" means: Garnir d’une charge.
What words are commonly confused with "charger"?
"charger" is commonly confused with "charte", "charme", "Charles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "charger"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "charger" is \ʃaʁ.ʒe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "charger" come from?
"charger" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.