charmilles
\ʃaʁ.mij\
The verdict
“charmilles” is uncommon French (frequency #92,537 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,537
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de charmille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charmilles · charmilles · French
charmilles · rank #92,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,537
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cellular
Nearest frequency peer: cellular (-4 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 « charmilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cassais
cassais
7,471 corpus weight
- cede
cede
7,469 corpus weight
- cellular
cellular
7,468 corpus weight
- charmilles
charmilles
7,464 corpus weight
- Chatila
Chatila
7,459 corpus weight
- Chavanne
Chavanne
7,458 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charmilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charmilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.mij\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charmilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charmilles is uncommon French at frequency #92,537 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃaʁ.mij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de charmille.".
charmilles has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is charmilles, spelled C-H-A-R-M-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de charmille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how charmilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès sa première jeunesse Tonsard faisait des journées pour le jardinier du château, car il n’avait pas son pareil pour tailler les arbres d’allée, les charmilles, les haies, les marronniers de l’Inde.
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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