charia

\ʃa.ʁja\

/\ʃa.ʁja\/ noun

The verdict

“charia” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,829. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,829
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Loi religieuse islamique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-charia · charia · French

charia · rank #16,829 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,829
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cessation

Nearest frequency peer: cessation (-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 « charia »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « charia » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

charia vs cria
67% similar
charia vs Chris
50% similar
charia vs chéri
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for charia
PropertyValue
Headwordcharia
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃa.ʁja\
Letters6
Frequency rank#16,829
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charia »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).chariase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cessation » (#16,828), « centime » (#16,827), « chimiste » (#16,831). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « charia » est au #16,829. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around charia (IPA \ʃa.ʁja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,829 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Loi religieuse islamique.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for charia, with forms such as "cahria", "ccharia", and "chaira". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cria", "Chris", "chéri", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented 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 charia, spelled C-H-A-R-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Loi religieuse islamique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how charia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’islam est la seule religion qui ait logiquement tendu à organiser une société sur ce principe, par le moyen de la charia, moyen qui consolide l’éthique sociale de l’islam, mais laisse de côté la politique, l’administration et le commerce.
  2. « Si vous dites “la charia” et que vous avez trois musulmans, ils se comporteront comme les partis d'extrême gauche, c'est-à-dire qu'ils vont se diviser en trois petits partis très rapidement ! »

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahria
  • ccharia
  • chaira
  • charai
  • charria
  • chharia
  • chraia
  • hcaria

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charia - 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.

cahria2ccharia1chaira2charai2charria1chharia1chraia2hcaria2
Edit distance from "charia"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "charia"?
"charia" is spelled C-H-A-R-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃa.ʁja\.
What does "charia" mean?
As a noun, "charia" means: Loi religieuse islamique.
What words are commonly confused with "charia"?
"charia" is commonly confused with "cria", "Chris", "chéri". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "charia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "charia" is \ʃa.ʁja\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "charia" come from?
"charia" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "charia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list