charogne
\ʃa.ʁɔɲ\
The verdict
“charogne” is uncommon French (frequency #53,851 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,851
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corps de bête morte abandonné et corrompu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charogne · charogne · French
charogne · rank #53,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,851
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chapdelaine
Nearest frequency peer: Chapdelaine (-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 « charogne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chamane
chamane
46,153 corpus weight
- Chanteloup
Chanteloup
46,152 corpus weight
- Chapdelaine
Chapdelaine
46,151 corpus weight
- charogne
charogne
46,150 corpus weight
- chica
chica
46,149 corpus weight
- chivas
chivas
46,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charogne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charogne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charogne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charogne is uncommon French at frequency #53,851 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ʁɔɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for charogne, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is charogne, spelled C-H-A-R-O-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Corps de bête morte abandonné et corrompu.
- 2Personne égoïste, cruelle, sournoise, dénuée de scrupules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charogne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rappelez-vous l’objet que nous vîmes, mon âme, Ce beau matin d’été si doux : Au détour d’un sentier une charogne infâme Sur un lit semé de cailloux…
Un cheval mort est un cadavre ; tout autre animal dont la vie s’est envolée n’est qu’une charogne.
This word in other languages
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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