charpenterie
\ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t.ʁi\
The verdict
“charpenterie” is uncommon French (frequency #84,629 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,629
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de travailler et d’assembler les gros bois destinés à former des charpentes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charpenterie · charpenterie · French
charpenterie · rank #84,629 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,629
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chanut
Nearest frequency peer: Chanut (-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 « charpenterie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chabaud
Chabaud
15,375 corpus weight
- chalandise
chalandise
15,374 corpus weight
- Chanut
Chanut
15,373 corpus weight
- charpenterie
charpenterie
15,372 corpus weight
- chauffagiste
chauffagiste
15,371 corpus weight
- chenet
chenet
15,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charpenterie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charpenterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #84,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charpenterie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charpenterie is uncommon French at frequency #84,629 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
charpenterie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is charpenterie, spelled C-H-A-R-P-E-N-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Art de travailler et d’assembler les gros bois destinés à former des charpentes.
- 2Endroit où l’on fait des travaux de charpenterie, spécialement en vue de la construction des bateaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charpenterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout lui était acquis et donc facile, autant dans la charpenterie que dans l’ébénisterie, et son sens de la décoration aurait pu en faire rougir plus d’un.
Il construisit de ses mains, avec les connaissances en charpenterie acquises de son père, les hangars en tôle ondulée de la maison de Port-d’Attelle, les clapiers à lapins, le poulailler, etc., qui tiennent toujours plus ou moins debout, même s’ils ne valaient pas un prix de Rome !
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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