charisme
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,339
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
charisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \ka.ʁism\. Often confused with charme and charité.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for charisme is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʁism\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,339 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for charisme, with forms such as "cahrisme", "ccharisme", and "chairsme". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "charme", "charité", "clarisse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is charisme, spelled C-H-A-R-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahrisme,ccharisme,chairsme,charimse,charisem,charismme,charissme,charrisme,charsime,chharisme,chraisme,hcarisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for charisme
Misspelling Variants of "charisme"
Frequency rank: #13,339 in French
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