charrière
\ʃa.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“charrière” is uncommon French (frequency #67,371 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,371
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voie par laquelle peut passer un char, une charrette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charriere · charrière · French
charrière · rank #67,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,371
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charretier
Nearest frequency peer: charretier (-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 « charrière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cera
cera
32,635 corpus weight
- chalut
chalut
32,633 corpus weight
- chanceuses
chanceuses
32,632 corpus weight
- charretier
charretier
32,631 corpus weight
- charrière
charrière
32,630 corpus weight
- Cheshire
Cheshire
32,628 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charrière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charrière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charrière is uncommon French at frequency #67,371 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.ʁjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for charrière, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 charrière, spelled C-H-A-R-R-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Voie par laquelle peut passer un char, une charrette.
- 2Unité de mesure du diamètre extérieur d’une sonde urinaire.
- 3Grand bateau utilisé pour transporter des chariots et leur faire traverser les rivières.
- 4Fesse, sens néologique créé pour la traduction d’Orange mécanique d’Anthony Burgess.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charrière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il la rejoint, se déchausse pour sentir sous son talon le pré de la Célestine, la charrière des Bonnat qu’on suivait entre les ornières profondes des routes.
– « Allez coucher dans la charrière, leur disait-il. Vous n’avez pas mérité une place dans un lit. »
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).