Chartres
\ʃaʁtʁ\
The verdict
“Chartres” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,335. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,335
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et chef-lieu de département française, située dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chartres · Chartres · French
Chartres · rank #12,335 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,335
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chariot
Nearest frequency peer: chariot (-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 « Chartres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chaleureux
chaleureux
87,669 corpus weight
- changez
changez
87,668 corpus weight
- chariot
chariot
87,667 corpus weight
- Chartres
Chartres
87,666 corpus weight
- cheikh
cheikh
87,665 corpus weight
- collins
collins
87,664 corpus weight
What this shows « Chartres » 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 | Chartres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁtʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Chartres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Chartres (IPA \ʃaʁtʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,335 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune et chef-lieu de département française, située dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Chartres, with forms such as "cahrtres", "cchartres", and "charrtes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "charts", "chattes", "chartreux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Chartres, spelled C-H-A-R-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune et chef-lieu de département française, située dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chartres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était dit, en ce morceau de littérature militaire, qu’un corps d’armée prussien, affamé, mal vêtu, sans armes, après avoir occupé Chartres, s’avançait sur nous, à marches forcées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrtres
- cchartres
- charrtes
- charrtres
- charters
- chartress
- chartrres
- chartrse
- charttres
- chatrres
- chhartres
- chratres
- hcartres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Chartres - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Chartres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).