charmeuse
\ʃaʁ.møz\
The verdict
“charmeuse” is uncommon French (frequency #73,821 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,821
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui use de charmes ou qui fascine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charmeuse · charmeuse · French
charmeuse · rank #73,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,821
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chapeaute
Nearest frequency peer: chapeaute (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « charmeuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CGV
CGV
26,183 corpus weight
- chapeaute
chapeaute
26,181 corpus weight
- charmeuse
charmeuse
26,180 corpus weight
- charnelles
charnelles
26,179 corpus weight
- chasseresse
chasseresse
26,178 corpus weight
- chatouilleux
chatouilleux
26,177 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charmeuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charmeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.møz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charmeuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charmeuse is uncommon French at frequency #73,821 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃaʁ.møz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for charmeuse, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is charmeuse, spelled C-H-A-R-M-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui use de charmes ou qui fascine.
- 2Celle qui exerce une influence magique.
- 3Celle qui plaît, qui séduit les gens.
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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