Charolais
\ʃa.ʁɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“Charolais” is uncommon French (frequency #51,956 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,956
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Charols, commune française située dans le département de la Drôme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charolais · Charolais · French
Charolais · rank #51,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,956
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charnue
Nearest frequency peer: charnue (-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 « Charolais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chargeront
chargeront
48,048 corpus weight
- charm
charm
48,047 corpus weight
- charnue
charnue
48,046 corpus weight
- Charolais
Charolais
48,045 corpus weight
- Chengdu
Chengdu
48,044 corpus weight
- Chiapas
Chiapas
48,043 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Charolais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Charolais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Charolais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Charolais is uncommon French at frequency #51,956 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ʁɔ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant de Charols, commune française située dans le département de la Drôme.".
Charolais doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Charolais, spelled C-H-A-R-O-L-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Charols, commune française située dans le département de la Drôme.
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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