charlatan
\ʃaʁ.la.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“charlatan” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,733. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,733
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a des manières ou qui utilise des procédés de charlatan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charlatan · charlatan · French
charlatan · rank #32,733 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,733
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chamberlain
Nearest frequency peer: chamberlain (-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 « charlatan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- centrés
centrés
67,271 corpus weight
- cessait
cessait
67,270 corpus weight
- chamberlain
chamberlain
67,269 corpus weight
- charlatan
charlatan
67,268 corpus weight
- charmeur
charmeur
67,267 corpus weight
- charron
charron
67,266 corpus weight
What this shows « charlatan » 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 | charlatan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.la.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charlatan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around charlatan (IPA \ʃaʁ.la.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,733 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a des manières ou qui utilise des procédés de charlatan.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for charlatan, with forms such as "cahrlatan", "ccharlatan", and "chalratan". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Charlton", "charlatans", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is charlatan, spelled C-H-A-R-L-A-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Qui a des manières ou qui utilise des procédés de charlatan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charlatan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gervaise, trop belle pour ne pas s'attirer les jalousies avec sa peau claire façon Rihanna sans décapage au djansang, ses formes rebondies sans injections au Kubor et autres remèdes charlatans du marché Dejean pour gonfler les fesses, faisait baver toutes les filles de rage.
Et tout ce qui fut notre orgueil, Passion vraie ou charlatane, S’y recroqueville et s’y tanne
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrlatan
- ccharlatan
- chalratan
- charaltan
- charlaatn
- charlatann
- charlatna
- charlattan
- charllatan
- charltaan
- charrlatan
- chharlatan
- chralatan
- hcarlatan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charlatan - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).