charte

/\ʃaʁt\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,811

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

charte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Acte écrit public ou privé de l’époque médiévale, fait et passé devant témoins et portant le plus souvent le sceau de son auteur. Pronounced \ʃaʁt\. It ranks #2,811 in French word frequency. Often confused with chat and chute.

Key facts for charte
PropertyValue
Headwordcharte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃaʁt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,811
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of charte in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for charte is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃaʁt\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,811 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for charte, with forms such as "cahrte", "ccharte", and "charet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chat", "chute", "chère", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is charte, spelled C-H-A-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acte écrit public ou privé de l’époque médiévale, fait et passé devant témoins et portant le plus souvent le sceau de son auteur.
  2. 2
    Acte royal solennel scellé de cire verte sur lacs de soie, exprimant la perpétuité ; une charte de franchise est celle accordée aux communes, qui leur conféraient certains droits ou privilèges.
  3. 3
    Acte fondamental qui a établi en France la monarchie constitutionnelle, en 1814, puis 1830.
  4. 4
    Règlement interne à une organisation ou à une fonction.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cahrte,ccharte,charet,charrte,chartte,chatre,chharte,chrate,hcarte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for charte

Misspelling Variants of "charte"

cahrte6ccharte7charet6charrte7chartte7chatre6chharte7chrate6
Misspelling Variants of "charte"

Frequency rank: #2,811 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "charte"?
"charte" is spelled C-H-A-R-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃaʁt\.
What does "charte" mean?
As a noun, "charte" means: Acte écrit public ou privé de l’époque médiévale, fait et passé devant témoins et portant le plus souvent le sceau de son auteur.
What words are commonly confused with "charte"?
"charte" is commonly confused with "chat", "chute", "chère". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "charte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "charte" is \ʃaʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "charte" come from?
"charte" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.