charme
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,444
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
charme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualités aimables, attraits, séduction ou ascendant qu’exercent sur l’imagination les objets qui la frappent vivement et qui produisent sur elle l’admiration, l’enthousiasme. Pronounced \ʃaʁm\. It ranks #3,444 in French word frequency. Often confused with chère and chars.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for charme is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃaʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,444 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for charme, with forms such as "cahrme", "ccharme", and "chamre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chère", "chars", "chase", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is charme, spelled C-H-A-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualités aimables, attraits, séduction ou ascendant qu’exercent sur l’imagination les objets qui la frappent vivement et qui produisent sur elle l’admiration, l’enthousiasme.
- 2Pouvoir de séduction ; talent de charmer.
- 3Attraits sexuels d’une fille ou d’une femme.
- 4Sentiment délicieux que fait éprouver ce qui intéresse le cœur, ce qui fait naître de douces sensations.
- 5Sort lancé sur une personne ; sortilège, enchantement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahrme,ccharme,chamre,charem,charmme,charrme,chharme,chrame,hcarme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for charme
Misspelling Variants of "charme"
Frequency rank: #3,444 in French
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