chahvsCharaConfusable pair

Quick tell: chah is a noun, Chara is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“chah” is a noun and “Chara” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,782
“chah” frequency rank
#41,702
“Chara” frequency rank
89484
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature chah Chara
Definition Titre des monarques de Perse, puis de l’Iran. Constellation sous la queue de la Grande Ourse.

Letter map: chah vs Chara

Shared letters muted; letters that set chah and Chara apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. chah runs 4 letters (CCVC) against Chara's 5 (CCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
chah
5 ch
Chara

Part-of-speech tell for chah / Chara

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: chah is anoun and Charaaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 89484, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

chah is recorded at frequency rank #47,782, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʃa\. Chara is at rank #41,702, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 89484, this pair ranks #5,746 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of chah vs Chara

Shared letters: ach. Private to "chah": -. Private to "Chara": r.

"chah" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "Chara" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • chah ← cahh · cchah · chahh · chha · chhah · hcah
  • Chara ← cahra · cchara · chaar · charra · chhara · chraa · hcara

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "chah" for "Chara" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "chah" is a noun and "Chara" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "chah" or "Chara" show up more?
"Chara" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,702 in our French list, against #47,782 for "chah". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "chah" and "Chara".

  • Full dictionary entry for "chah" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Chara" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #5,746 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "chah" and "Chara" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "CCAS vs chah". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #5,746 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list