chargezvscharméeTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#44,365
“chargez” frequency rank
#49,549
“charmée” frequency rank
93914
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature chargez charmée
Definition Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe charger. Féminin singulier de charmé.

Where the eye mixes chargez and charmée

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

7 ch
chargez
7 ch
charmée

Look-alike desk: chargez vs charmée

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: chargez is \ʃaʁ.ʒe\ 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 93914, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

chargez is recorded at frequency rank #44,365, classified as averb, pronounced \ʃaʁ.ʒe\. 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 93914, this pair ranks #1,948 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of chargez vs charmée

Shared letters: acehr. Private to "chargez": gz. Private to "charmée": .

"chargez" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC  ·  "charmée" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • chargezcahrgez · cchargez · chagrez · charegz · chargezz · charggez · chargze · charrgez

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "chargez" and "charmée" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "chargez" is a verb and "charmée" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "chargez" vs "charmée" - which ranks higher?
"chargez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #44,365 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "chargez" 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 #1,948 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "chargez" 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 #1,948 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