Charon
\ka.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“Charon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,644. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,644
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans la mythologie gréco-latine, passeur des Enfers, fils d’Érèbe (les Ténèbres) et de Nyx (la Nuit), qui a pour rôle de faire passer sur sa barque, moyennant un péage, les ombres errantes des défu...
Corpus desk
Index FR-charon · Charon · French
Charon · rank #46,644 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,644
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charnières
Nearest frequency peer: charnières (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Charon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chantres
chantres
53,360 corpus weight
- Charlotteto…
Charlottetown
53,359 corpus weight
- charnières
charnières
53,358 corpus weight
- Charon
Charon
53,357 corpus weight
- charrettes
charrettes
53,356 corpus weight
- chercherai
chercherai
53,355 corpus weight
What this shows « Charon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Charon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Charon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Charon (IPA \ka.ʁɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,644 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dans la mythologie gréco-latine, passeur des Enfers, fils d’Érèbe (les Ténèbres) et de Nyx (la Nuit), qui a pour rôle de faire passer sur sa barque, moyennant un péage, les ombres errantes des défu...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Charon, with forms such as "cahron", "ccharon", and "chaorn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chars", "charte", "citron", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Charon, spelled C-H-A-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Dans la mythologie gréco-latine, passeur des Enfers, fils d’Érèbe (les Ténèbres) et de Nyx (la Nuit), qui a pour rôle de faire passer sur sa barque, moyennant un péage, les ombres errantes des défunts à travers le fleuve Achéron (ou le Styx) vers le séjour des morts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Charon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je conseille à Charon de doubler son droit de péage, à Pluton de faire la guerre contre Jupiter pour être le premier des dieux, attendu que Jupiter gouverne mal les hommes, et que l’empire des morts est plus étendu que celui des vivants.
Quand Don Juan descendit vers l’onde souterraine Et lorsqu’il eut donné son obole à Charon, Un sombre mendiant, l’œil fier comme Antisthène, D’un bras vengeur et fort saisit chaque aviron.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahron
- ccharon
- chaorn
- charno
- charonn
- chharon
- chraon
- hcaron
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Charon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).