chartreux
\ʃaʁ.tʁø\
The verdict
“chartreux” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,021
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Religieux de l’ordre de Saint-Bruno.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chartreux · chartreux · French
chartreux · rank #34,021 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,021
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charrues
Nearest frequency peer: charrues (-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 « chartreux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charlatans
charlatans
65,982 corpus weight
- charrues
charrues
65,981 corpus weight
- chartreux
chartreux
65,980 corpus weight
- CHF
CHF
65,979 corpus weight
- chimistes
chimistes
65,978 corpus weight
- choco
choco
65,977 corpus weight
What this shows « chartreux » 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 | chartreux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃaʁ.tʁø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chartreux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around chartreux (IPA \ʃaʁ.tʁø\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,021 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Religieux de l’ordre de Saint-Bruno.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for chartreux, with forms such as "cahrtreux", "cchartreux", and "charrteux". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Chartres", "chartreuse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chartreux, spelled C-H-A-R-T-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Religieux de l’ordre de Saint-Bruno.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chartreux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cimetière est ombragé par deux ou trois grands cyprès, comme il y a dans les cimetières turcs : cet enclos funèbre contient quatre cent dix-neuf chartreux morts depuis la construction du couvent ; une herbe épaisse et touffue couvre ce terrain, où l’on ne voit ni tombe, ni croix, ni inscription ; ils gisent là confusément, humbles dans la mort comme il…
— Vous travaillez donc toujours ? reprit-elle… Du reste, on m’a dit que vous viviez en vrai chartreux… Le fait est qu’on ne vous aperçoit nulle part, monsieur Mintié.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrtreux
- cchartreux
- charrteux
- charrtreux
- charterux
- chartreuxx
- chartrexu
- chartrreux
- chartruex
- charttreux
- chatrreux
- chhartreux
- chratreux
- hcartreux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chartreux - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).