charnière
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,368
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
charnière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblage mobile de deux pièces de métal, de bois ou d’autre matière, enclavées l’une dans l’autre et jointes par une broche, par un clou qui les traverse. Pronounced \ʃaʁ.njɛʁ\. Often confused with chartier and charrier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charnière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for charnière is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃaʁ.njɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,368 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for charnière, with forms such as "cahrnière", "ccharnière", and "chanrière". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "chartier", "charrier", "chaudière", 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 charnière, spelled C-H-A-R-N-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Assemblage mobile de deux pièces de métal, de bois ou d’autre matière, enclavées l’une dans l’autre et jointes par une broche, par un clou qui les traverse.
- 2Partie où sont attachées ensemble les deux valves d’une coquille et sur laquelle se font leurs mouvements.
- 3Fil creux.
- 4Outil de graveur sur pierre.
- 5Place du leurre.
- 6Moment historique lors duquel des changements importants s’opèrent.
- 7Petit morceau de papier gommé et plié, destiné à fixer un timbre dans un album.
- 8Groupe de deux joueurs assurant la liaison entre les arrières et les avants, la paire de demis (n° 9 et 10).
- 9Point de jonction des deux dispositifs stratégiques.
- 10Articulation.
- 11Périnée, espace entre anus et vagin.
- 12Section du tronc entre le trait d’abattage et le cran de chute, destiné à empêcher l’arbre de quitter sa souche lors de sa chute.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahrnière,ccharnière,chanrière,charinère,charniere,charnirèe,charnièer,charnièrre,charnnière,charnèire,charrnière,chharnière,chranière,hcarnière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for charnière
Misspelling Variants of "charnière"
Frequency rank: #17,368 in French
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Nearby French words
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