charrée
\ʃa.ʁe\
The verdict
“charrée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cendre qui a servi à faire la lessive et dont on se servait pour amender les terres et fabriquer le verre. Cendre lessivée en général, dont il ne reste que la matière charbonneuse qui une fois nett...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “charrée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for charrée is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.ʁe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cendre qui a servi à faire la lessive et dont on se servait pour amender les terres et fabriquer le verre. Cendre lessivée en général, dont il ne reste que la matière charbonneuse qui une fois nett...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for charrée in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is charrée, spelled C-H-A-R-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Cendre qui a servi à faire la lessive et dont on se servait pour amender les terres et fabriquer le verre. Cendre lessivée en général, dont il ne reste que la matière charbonneuse qui une fois nettoyée de ses impuretés, peut servir de charbon actif, par exemple employé en couches filtrantes pour purifier les eaux. Cendre qui reste sur le cuvier quand la lessive est écoulée, dans le vocable des lavandières.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “charrée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-R-R-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃa.ʁe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.