Charleroi
\ʃaʁ.lə.ʁwa\
The verdict
“Charleroi” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,013. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,013
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charleroi · Charleroi · French
Charleroi · rank #11,013 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,013
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chargeur
Nearest frequency peer: chargeur (-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 « Charleroi »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- casier
casier
88,991 corpus weight
- cessent
cessent
88,990 corpus weight
- chargeur
chargeur
88,989 corpus weight
- Charleroi
Charleroi
88,988 corpus weight
- circonstance
circonstance
88,987 corpus weight
- Cl
Cl
88,986 corpus weight
What this shows « Charleroi » 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 | Charleroi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.lə.ʁwa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Charleroi »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Charleroi (IPA \ʃaʁ.lə.ʁwa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,013 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Charleroi, with forms such as "cahrleroi", "ccharleroi", and "chalreroi". 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, "Charlevoix", "Charlebois", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Charleroi, spelled C-H-A-R-L-E-R-O-I.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
- 2Aéroport de Charleroi-Bruxelles-Sud, aéroport situé dans cette commune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Charleroi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tandis qu'une partie de l’Armée Française recevait de front, dans la région de Charleroi, le choc de l'ennemi, la IIIᵉ Armée masquant la place forte de Metz, devait attaquer celui-ci de flanc, de Virton au nord de Longuyon.
— Charleroi ! Si j’m’en rappelle ! Comme on y a souffert, mon gars ! T’étais pas encore né, toi. Des jours et des nuits sans bouffer, sans boire, sans dormir ! Et les Boches à nos trousses !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrleroi
- ccharleroi
- chalreroi
- charelroi
- charleori
- charlerio
- charlerroi
- charlleroi
- charlreoi
- charrleroi
- chharleroi
- chraleroi
- hcarleroi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Charleroi - 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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Same letter count
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