charpentier
\ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje\
The verdict
“charpentier” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,318. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,318
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la charpente, au charpentier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charpentier · charpentier · French
charpentier · rank #16,318 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,318
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH changée
Nearest frequency peer: changée (-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 « charpentier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caste
caste
83,686 corpus weight
- century
century
83,685 corpus weight
- changée
changée
83,684 corpus weight
- charpentier
charpentier
83,683 corpus weight
- Christina
Christina
83,682 corpus weight
- cibler
cibler
83,681 corpus weight
What this shows « charpentier » 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 | charpentier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charpentier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around charpentier (IPA \ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,318 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for charpentier, with forms such as "cahrpentier", "ccharpentier", and "chaprentier". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "charpentiers", "charpente", "carpenter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is charpentier, spelled C-H-A-R-P-E-N-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la charpente, au charpentier.
- 2Qualifie une grosse branche principale qui part du tronc de l’arbre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how charpentier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La première pierre en ce jardin est posée par la plasticienne américaine Liza Lou qui offre l’une des pièces maîtresses de l’exposition, comme on le dit de la poutre charpentière élevée par un compagnon d’élite.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrpentier
- ccharpentier
- chaprentier
- charepntier
- charpeniter
- charpenntier
- charpenteir
- charpentierr
- charpentire
- charpenttier
- charpetnier
- charpnetier
- charppentier
- charrpentier
- chharpentier
- chrapentier
- hcarpentier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charpentier - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "charpentier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).