charming
\ˈtʃɑː(ɹ).mɪŋ\
The verdict
“charming” is uncommon French (frequency #73,004 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,004
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Charmant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charming · charming · French
charming · rank #73,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,004
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charbonnage
Nearest frequency peer: charbonnage (-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 « charming »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- changerons
changerons
27,000 corpus weight
- charbonnage
charbonnage
26,998 corpus weight
- charming
charming
26,997 corpus weight
- chauffards
chauffards
26,996 corpus weight
- chemisette
chemisette
26,995 corpus weight
- chemtrails
chemtrails
26,994 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charming » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charming |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈtʃɑː(ɹ).mɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charming » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charming is uncommon French at frequency #73,004 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈtʃɑː(ɹ).mɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Charmant.".
charming has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is charming, spelled C-H-A-R-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Charmant.
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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