charpie
\ʃaʁ.pi\
The verdict
“charpie” is uncommon French (frequency #70,471 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,471
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amas de petits fils tirés d’une toile usée que l’on a coupée par morceaux, et qui sert à panser les plaies, les ulcères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charpie · charpie · French
charpie · rank #70,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,471
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charognard
Nearest frequency peer: charognard (-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 « charpie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chalands
chalands
29,533 corpus weight
- chargeaient
chargeaient
29,532 corpus weight
- charognard
charognard
29,531 corpus weight
- charpie
charpie
29,530 corpus weight
- cheetah
cheetah
29,529 corpus weight
- Cheverny
Cheverny
29,528 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charpie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charpie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.pi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charpie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charpie is uncommon French at frequency #70,471 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃaʁ.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for charpie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 charpie, spelled C-H-A-R-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Amas de petits fils tirés d’une toile usée que l’on a coupée par morceaux, et qui sert à panser les plaies, les ulcères.
- 2Matériel réduit en morceaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charpie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plaie douloureuse et non mortelle, […], murmura la belle et savante chirurgienne ; passe-moi du baume et prépare de la charpie, Gillonne.
[…] déjà dans la journée du vendredi l’ambulance du grand quartier général s’y était établie, des caissons de charpie y avaient été déballés, de même que des appareils et des médicaments […]
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).