charnels
\ʃaʁ.nɛl\
The verdict
“charnels” is uncommon French (frequency #68,902 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,902
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de charnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charnels · charnels · French
charnels · rank #68,902 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,902
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charlots
Nearest frequency peer: charlots (-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 « charnels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chandon
Chandon
31,103 corpus weight
- chantante
chantante
31,102 corpus weight
- chargeons
chargeons
31,101 corpus weight
- charlots
charlots
31,100 corpus weight
- charnels
charnels
31,099 corpus weight
- Chassagne
Chassagne
31,097 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charnels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charnels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charnels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charnels is uncommon French at frequency #68,902 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃaʁ.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de charnel.".
charnels doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 charnels, spelled C-H-A-R-N-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin 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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