chartreuse
\ʃaʁ.tʁøz\
The verdict
“chartreuse” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,883. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,883
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couvent de chartreux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chartreuse · chartreuse · French
chartreuse · rank #21,883 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,883
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cathédrales
Nearest frequency peer: cathédrales (-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 « chartreuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Caracas
Caracas
78,121 corpus weight
- catalyseur
catalyseur
78,120 corpus weight
- cathédrales
cathédrales
78,119 corpus weight
- chartreuse
chartreuse
78,118 corpus weight
- cheap
cheap
78,117 corpus weight
- Cisjordanie
Cisjordanie
78,116 corpus weight
What this shows « chartreuse » 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 | chartreuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.tʁøz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chartreuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around chartreuse (IPA \ʃaʁ.tʁøz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,883 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for chartreuse, with forms such as "cahrtreuse", "cchartreuse", and "charrteuse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "chartreux", "Chartres", "chanteuse", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chartreuse, spelled C-H-A-R-T-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Couvent de chartreux.
- 2Principalement en Aquitaine, maison de campagne isolée, solitaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chartreuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant de partir de Burgos, nous allâmes faire une visite à la Cartuja de Miraflores, située à une demi-lieue de la ville. On a permis à quelques pauvres vieux moines infirmes de rester dans cette chartreuse pour y attendre leur mort.
Deux pavillons, construits par l’arrière-grand-père, déshonoraient cette chartreuse du xviiiᵉ siècle où plusieurs générations de Frontenac avaient vécu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrtreuse
- cchartreuse
- charrteuse
- charrtreuse
- charteruse
- chartresue
- chartreues
- chartreusse
- chartrreuse
- chartruese
- charttreuse
- chatrreuse
- chhartreuse
- chratreuse
- hcartreuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chartreuse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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