charnier
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,060
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
charnier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cimetière, lieu où l’on déposait les ossements des morts, fosse commune, ossuaire. Pronounced \ʃaʁ.nje\. Often confused with charter and charrie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charnier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.nje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for charnier is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃaʁ.nje\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,060 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for charnier, with forms such as "cahrnier", "ccharnier", and "chanrier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "charter", "charrie", "chartier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is charnier, spelled C-H-A-R-N-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cimetière, lieu où l’on déposait les ossements des morts, fosse commune, ossuaire.
- 2Endroit où gisent de nombreux cadavres.
- 3Garde-manger pour les viandes salées.
- 4Galerie autour d’une église.
- 5Barrique sur le gaillard, contenant l’eau que l’on distribuait journellement à l’équipage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahrnier,ccharnier,chanrier,chariner,charneir,charnierr,charnire,charnnier,charrnier,chharnier,chranier,hcarnier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for charnier
Misspelling Variants of "charnier"
Frequency rank: #46,060 in French
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