charrue
\ʃa.ʁy\
The verdict
“charrue” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,480
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terme générique par lequel on désigne les différents types d’instruments de labourage qui varient selon les pays, les époques, les techniques et les besoins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charrue · charrue · French
charrue · rank #28,480 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,480
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Charlevoix
Nearest frequency peer: Charlevoix (-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 « charrue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CDS
CDS
71,524 corpus weight
- Charlevoix
Charlevoix
71,522 corpus weight
- charrue
charrue
71,521 corpus weight
- chattes
chattes
71,520 corpus weight
- Christelle
Christelle
71,519 corpus weight
- chuis
chuis
71,518 corpus weight
What this shows « charrue » 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 | charrue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « charrue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around charrue (IPA \ʃa.ʁy\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,480 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for charrue, with forms such as "cahrrue", "ccharrue", and "charreu". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "charte", "charrues", "carré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is charrue, spelled C-H-A-R-R-U-E.
Definition
- 1Terme générique par lequel on désigne les différents types d’instruments de labourage qui varient selon les pays, les époques, les techniques et les besoins.
- 2Quantité de terre qu’une charrue pouvait labourer annuellement.
- 3Filet en forme de poche.
- 4Chasse-neige.
- 5Fille aux mœurs légères ou souffrant d’embonpoint.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how charrue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant de récolter le grain qui lui servira de nourriture, avant de cueillir le fruit qui étanchera sa soif, l’habitant des terres doit planter l’arbre ou fatiguer le sol avec la charrue.
Ce n’est pas un cheval irritable, […] qu’il faut pour conduire la charrue ou traîner le tombereau dans les champs !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrrue
- ccharrue
- charreu
- charue
- charure
- chharrue
- chrarue
- hcarrue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of charrue - 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 "charrue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).