Charles
\ʃaʁl\
The verdict
“Charles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,176. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,176
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charles · Charles · French
Charles · rank #1,176 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,176
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH américains
Nearest frequency peer: américains (-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 « Charles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vitesse
vitesse
98,828 corpus weight
- étranger
étranger
98,827 corpus weight
- américains
américains
98,826 corpus weight
- Charles
Charles
98,825 corpus weight
- cheveux
cheveux
98,824 corpus weight
- dollars
dollars
98,823 corpus weight
What this shows « Charles » 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 | Charles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Charles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Charles (IPA \ʃaʁl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,176 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Charles, with forms such as "cahrles", "ccharles", and "chalres". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chars", "charte", "charme", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Charles, spelled C-H-A-R-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Charles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Charles, après avoir fait mille tours dans sa chambre en chanteronnant, descendit enfin.
Elle reçoit un jour une lettre de Charles Dullin, la convoquant chez lui, à Montmartre, pour un projet dont le programme comporte entre autres de purifier le théâtre et de décabotiner l’acteur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrles
- ccharles
- chalres
- charels
- charless
- charlles
- charlse
- charrles
- chharles
- chrales
- hcarles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Charles - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).