Chartrain
The verdict
“Chartrain” is uncommon French (frequency #90,534 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,534
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Chartres, commune de l’Eure-et-Loir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chartrain · Chartrain · French
Chartrain · rank #90,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,534
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charton
Nearest frequency peer: charton (-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 « Chartrain »
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 « Chartrain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chartrain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chartrain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chartrain is uncommon French at frequency #90,534 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Chartrain, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Chartrain, spelled C-H-A-R-T-R-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Chartres, commune de l’Eure-et-Loir.
- 2Habitant de Chartres-de-Bretagne, commune de l’Ille-et-Vilaine.
- 3Habitant de La Chartre-sur-le-Loir, commune de la Sarthe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chartrain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Chartrain est cupide, apathique et salace, répliqua l’abbé Plomb ; cupide surtout, car la passion du lucre est ici, sous des dehors inertes, féroce.
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).