Chartres
\ʃaʁtʁ\
The verdict
“Chartres” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #12,335 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #12,335
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune et chef-lieu de département française, située dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir.
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) |
Where “Chartres” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Chartres is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃaʁtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,335 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “Chartres”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-R-T-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃaʁtʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “charts” - see the side-by-side comparison. Chartres vs charts
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.