chari
\ʃa.ʁi\
The verdict
“chari” is uncommon French (frequency #61,395 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,395
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
Corpus desk
Index FR-chari · chari · French
chari · rank #61,395 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,395
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH changeais
Nearest frequency peer: changeais (-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 « chari »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chancelante
chancelante
38,609 corpus weight
- chancelleri…
chancelleries
38,608 corpus weight
- changeais
changeais
38,607 corpus weight
- chari
chari
38,606 corpus weight
- chauffez
chauffez
38,605 corpus weight
- chianti
chianti
38,603 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chari » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chari |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chari » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chari is uncommon French at frequency #61,395 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chari in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chari, spelled C-H-A-R-I.
Definition
- 1Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chari appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
CHARI. Ancienne mesure de capacité des Hindous. Le chari était égal au cube de la coudée, et se divisait en 16 drona = 64 adhaca = 256 prastha = 1024 cudaba = 264 litres = 58.106 gallons.
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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