charton
\ʃaʁ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“charton” is uncommon French (frequency #90,533 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,533
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de charreton, charretin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-charton · charton · French
charton · rank #90,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,533
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charolaise
Nearest frequency peer: charolaise (-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 « charton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- charançons
charançons
9,470 corpus weight
- charolaise
charolaise
9,469 corpus weight
- charton
charton
9,468 corpus weight
- Chartrain
Chartrain
9,467 corpus weight
- Chatelier
Chatelier
9,466 corpus weight
- chauffantes
chauffantes
9,465 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « charton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | charton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « charton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
charton is uncommon French at frequency #90,533 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃaʁ.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de charreton, charretin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for charton in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 charton, spelled C-H-A-R-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Variante de charreton, charretin.
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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