de charme
\də ʃaʁm\
The verdict
“de charme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Charmant, charmeur, séduisant, en parlant d’une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-de-charme · de charme · French
de charme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de charme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \də ʃaʁm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « de charme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
de charme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \də ʃaʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for de charme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is de charme, spelled D-E- -C-H-A-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Charmant, charmeur, séduisant, en parlant d’une personne.
- 2Érotique, en parlant d’un média (site web, magazine…).
- 3Pornographique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how de charme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà Janis, ma secrétaire de charme.
Ma mère n’écoute que les disques de quelques chanteurs de charme.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.