charleston
\ʃaʁ.lɛs.tɔn\
The verdict
“charleston” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,724. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,724
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de percussion idiophone composé d'une paire de cymbales accrochées à un pied à pédale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charleston · charleston · French
charleston · rank #27,724 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,724
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chandail
Nearest frequency peer: chandail (-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 « charleston »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- certifiée
certifiée
72,280 corpus weight
- championship
championship
72,279 corpus weight
- chandail
chandail
72,278 corpus weight
- charleston
charleston
72,277 corpus weight
- charmantes
charmantes
72,276 corpus weight
- chasteté
chasteté
72,275 corpus weight
What this shows « charleston » 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 | charleston |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.lɛs.tɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #27,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charleston »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around charleston (IPA \ʃaʁ.lɛs.tɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,724 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Instrument de percussion idiophone composé d'une paire de cymbales accrochées à un pied à pédale.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for charleston, with forms such as "cahrleston", "ccharleston", and "chalreston". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Charlton", "Charenton", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is charleston, spelled C-H-A-R-L-E-S-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Instrument de percussion idiophone composé d'une paire de cymbales accrochées à un pied à pédale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charleston appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’utilise quasiment que les éléments fondamentaux de la batterie : grosse caisse, caisse claire, cymbale, charleston.
Pire, la pédale de la charleston était cassée ; du coup, le reste du show s’avéra assez pitoyable, laissant cette curieuse impression que Dave était vraiment moins talentueux que Keith.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrleston
- ccharleston
- chalreston
- charelston
- charlesotn
- charlesston
- charlestno
- charlestonn
- charlestton
- charletson
- charlleston
- charlseton
- charrleston
- chharleston
- chraleston
- hcarleston
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charleston - 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
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).