charo
\ʃa.ʁo\
The verdict
“charo” is uncommon French (frequency #68,129 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,129
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Charognard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charo · charo · French
charo · rank #68,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,129
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charms
Nearest frequency peer: charms (-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 « charo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charcutiers
charcutiers
31,875 corpus weight
- Charlet
Charlet
31,874 corpus weight
- charms
charms
31,873 corpus weight
- charo
charo
31,872 corpus weight
- chatouilles
chatouilles
31,871 corpus weight
- chausses
chausses
31,870 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charo is uncommon French at frequency #68,129 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for charo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 charo, spelled C-H-A-R-O.
Definition
- 1Charognard.
- 2Coureur de jupons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma chérie, m’raconte pas tes salades, ce soir, j’vais te verser la mayo (du me-sper) J’ai dealé ma dope dans le coin, j’ai déployé mes ailes comme un charo.
D’la marchandise dans les ovaires Sur l’rain-ter les p’tits sont des vacataires Oh charo' ! Toi t’es un vrai pointeur
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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