charisme
\ka.ʁism\
The verdict
“charisme” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,339. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,339
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Don exceptionnel ou grâce, accordé par Dieu à une ou plusieurs personnes, comme le don de guérison, l'aptitude à « parler plusieurs langues », etc., non pour le bien de soi, mais pour le bien de tous.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charisme · charisme · French
charisme · rank #13,339 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,339
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH carole
Nearest frequency peer: carole (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “charisme”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- calcium
calcium
86,665 corpus weight
- canards
canards
86,664 corpus weight
- carole
carole
86,663 corpus weight
- charisme
charisme
86,662 corpus weight
- Charlemagne
Charlemagne
86,661 corpus weight
- Christiane
Christiane
86,660 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “charisme” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | charisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁism\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “charisme” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around charisme (IPA \ka.ʁism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,339 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for charisme, with forms such as "cahrisme", "ccharisme", and "chairsme". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "charme", "charité", "clarisse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 charisme, spelled C-H-A-R-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Don exceptionnel ou grâce, accordé par Dieu à une ou plusieurs personnes, comme le don de guérison, l'aptitude à « parler plusieurs langues », etc., non pour le bien de soi, mais pour le bien de tous.
- 2Depuis 1971, désigne le caractère collectif de cette qualité appliquée à un institut, une communauté ou une congrégation religieuse.
- 3Aura indéfinissable, talent que semble posséder quelqu’un, souvent lié à sa prestance, qui est capable de susciter l’adhésion, la fascination d’un grand nombre de personnes.
- 4À Donjons & Dragons, et d’autres jeux de rôle, caractéristique (valeur chiffrée) représentant la capacité d’un personnage à influencer les autres, à les mettre en confiance, par son éloquence et son comportement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrisme
- ccharisme
- chairsme
- charimse
- charisem
- charismme
- charissme
- charrisme
- charsime
- chharisme
- chraisme
- hcarisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charisme - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "charisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
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.