charmer
\ʃaʁ.me\
The verdict
“charmer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,003. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,003
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Produire un effet extraordinaire sur quelqu’un ou sur quelque chose par un charme magique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charmer · charmer · French
charmer · rank #27,003 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,003
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Charly
Nearest frequency peer: Charly (-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 « charmer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chandelles
chandelles
73,001 corpus weight
- changerai
changerai
73,000 corpus weight
- Charly
Charly
72,999 corpus weight
- charmer
charmer
72,998 corpus weight
- chevelu
chevelu
72,997 corpus weight
- choisisse
choisisse
72,996 corpus weight
What this shows « charmer » 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 | charmer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charmer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around charmer (IPA \ʃaʁ.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,003 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for charmer, with forms such as "cahrmer", "ccharmer", and "chamrer". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "charte", "cramer", "clamer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 charmer, spelled C-H-A-R-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Produire un effet extraordinaire sur quelqu’un ou sur quelque chose par un charme magique.
- 2Fasciner.
- 3Plaire extrêmement ; ravir en admiration ; séduire.
- 4Causer une vive satisfaction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charmer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Orphée, dit-on, charmait hommes, bêtes et arbres par les accents de sa lyre.
Le serpent charme les oiseaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrmer
- ccharmer
- chamrer
- charemr
- charmerr
- charmmer
- charmre
- charrmer
- chharmer
- chramer
- hcarmer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charmer - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "charmer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).