chargeavscharméeTell them apart

Quick tell: chargea is a verb, charmée is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“chargea” is a verb and “charmée” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,755
“chargea” frequency rank
#49,549
“charmée” frequency rank
86304
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature chargea charmée
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe charger. Féminin singulier de charmé.

Where the eye mixes chargea and charmée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

7 ch
chargea
7 ch
charmée

Why the eye confuses chargea with charmée

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: chargea is \ʃaʁ.ʒa\ while charmée is \ʃaʁ.me\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86304, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

chargea is recorded at frequency rank #36,755, classified as averb, pronounced \ʃaʁ.ʒa\. charmée is at rank #49,549, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʃaʁ.me\.

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 86304, this pair ranks #9,897 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of chargea vs charmée

Shared letters: acehr. Private to "chargea": g. Private to "charmée": .

"chargea" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVV  ·  "charmée" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • chargeacahrgea · cchargea · chagrea · charega · chargae · charggea · charrgea · chhargea

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "chargea" and "charmée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "chargea" is a verb and "charmée" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "chargea" or "charmée"?
"chargea" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,755 in our French list, against #49,549 for "charmée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "chargea" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "charmée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #9,897 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "chargea" and "charmée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "charmée vs charrie". 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 #9,897 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