charity
\ˈt͡ʃæɹ.ɪ.ti\
The verdict
“charity” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,548
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Charité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charity · charity · French
charity · rank #49,548 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,548
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH champêtres
Nearest frequency peer: champêtres (-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 « charity »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- champêtres
champêtres
50,454 corpus weight
- charity
charity
50,453 corpus weight
- charmée
charmée
50,452 corpus weight
- chassées
chassées
50,451 corpus weight
- cheesecake
cheesecake
50,450 corpus weight
- chevreau
chevreau
50,449 corpus weight
What this shows « charity » 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 | charity |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈt͡ʃæɹ.ɪ.ti\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charity »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around charity (IPA \ˈt͡ʃæɹ.ɪ.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,548 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for charity, with forms such as "cahrity", "ccharity", and "chairty". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "charte", "Charly", "charts", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is charity, spelled C-H-A-R-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Charité.
- 2Charité, aumône.
- 3Organisation caritative.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He didn’t want my charity.
Charity begins at home.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrity
- ccharity
- chairty
- charitty
- charityy
- chariyt
- charrity
- chartiy
- chharity
- chraity
- hcarity
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charity - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "charity", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).