charia
\ʃa.ʁja\
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
- Cayenne
Cayenne
83,175 corpus weight
- centime
centime
83,174 corpus weight
- cessation
cessation
83,173 corpus weight
- charia
charia
83,172 corpus weight
- chimiste
chimiste
83,170 corpus weight
- cidre
cidre
83,169 corpus weight
What this shows « charia » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | charia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charia »
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
- 1Loi religieuse islamique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
« 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 ! »
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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).