charnier
\ʃaʁ.nje\
The verdict
“charnier” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,060
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cimetière, lieu où l’on déposait les ossements des morts, fosse commune, ossuaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charnier · charnier · French
charnier · rank #46,060 · 12 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,060
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Charline
Nearest frequency peer: Charline (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « charnier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chargements
chargements
53,944 corpus weight
- Charlebois
Charlebois
53,943 corpus weight
- Charline
Charline
53,942 corpus weight
- charnier
charnier
53,941 corpus weight
- chauvinisme
chauvinisme
53,940 corpus weight
- chevaucheme…
chevauchement
53,939 corpus weight
What this shows « charnier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charnier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around charnier (IPA \ʃaʁ.nje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,060 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for charnier, with forms such as "cahrnier", "ccharnier", and "chanrier". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is charnier, spelled C-H-A-R-N-I-E-R.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charnier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au lieu d'être jeté, comme les autres, au charnier royal, il y fut descendu, déposé doucement et couché avec soin à l’un des angles.
À partir du IXᵉ siècle et jusqu’à la révolution, on enterrait dans les églises ou autour de ces monuments. Les cimetières étaient ainsi placés au centre des villes et on y élevait ordinairement des ossuaires qu’on appelait charniers. Un des plus célèbres était le charnier des Innocents à Paris.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrnier
- ccharnier
- chanrier
- chariner
- charneir
- charnierr
- charnire
- charnnier
- charrnier
- chharnier
- chranier
- hcarnier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charnier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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