charnus
\ʃaʁ.ny\
The verdict
“charnus” is uncommon French (frequency #81,872 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,872
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de charnu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charnus · charnus · French
charnus · rank #81,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,872
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chailly
Nearest frequency peer: Chailly (-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 « charnus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- centennial
centennial
18,133 corpus weight
- cervo
cervo
18,132 corpus weight
- Chailly
Chailly
18,130 corpus weight
- charnus
charnus
18,129 corpus weight
- chenin
chenin
18,127 corpus weight
- chicot
chicot
18,126 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charnus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charnus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.ny\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charnus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charnus is uncommon French at frequency #81,872 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃaʁ.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de charnu.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for charnus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is charnus, spelled C-H-A-R-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de charnu.
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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