charnelles
\ʃaʁ.nɛl\
The verdict
“charnelles” is uncommon French (frequency #73,822 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,822
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de charnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charnelles · charnelles · French
charnelles · rank #73,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,822
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charmeuse
Nearest frequency peer: charmeuse (-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 « charnelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- cheek
cheek
26,176 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charnelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charnelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charnelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charnelles is uncommon French at frequency #73,822 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃaʁ.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de charnel.".
charnelles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is charnelles, spelled C-H-A-R-N-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de charnel.
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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