chariot élévateur
\ʃaʁ.jo e.le.va.tœʁ\
The verdict
“chariot élévateur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Engin de manutention destiné au transfert de charges, notamment des palettes, dans les usines ou entrepôts de stockage
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chariot élévateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.jo e.le.va.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chariot élévateur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chariot élévateur is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃaʁ.jo e.le.va.tœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Engin de manutention destiné au transfert de charges, notamment des palettes, dans les usines ou entrepôts de stockage".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chariot élévateur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chariot élévateur, spelled C-H-A-R-I-O-T- -É-L-É-V-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Engin de manutention destiné au transfert de charges, notamment des palettes, dans les usines ou entrepôts de stockage
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “chariot élévateur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-R-I-O-T- -É-L-É-V-A-T-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.