charméevscharterConfusable pair

Quick tell: charmée is a adjective, charter is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#49,549
“charmée” frequency rank
#36,757
“charter” frequency rank
86306
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature charmée charter
Definition Féminin singulier de charmé. Avion affrété pour transporter un groupe de personnes à un tarif moindre que celui des lignes ordinaires.

Where the eye mixes charmée and charter

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. charmée (CCVCCVV) and charter (CCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
charmée
7 ch
charter

Why the eye confuses charmée with charter

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: charmée is \ʃaʁ.me\ while charter is \ʃaʁ.tɛʁ\. 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 (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86306, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

charmée is recorded at frequency rank #49,549, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʃaʁ.me\. charter is at rank #36,757, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʃaʁ.tɛʁ\.

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 86306, this pair ranks #9,894 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of charmée vs charter

Shared letters: acehr. Private to "charmée": mé. Private to "charter": t.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • charter ← cahrter · ccharter · charetr · charrter · charterr · chartre · chartter · chatrer

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "charmée" and "charter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "charmée" is an adjective and "charter" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "charmée" or "charter" show up more?
"charter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,757 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

Eye-level mix-up between "charmée" and "charter" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "charmée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "charter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #9,894 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "charmée" and "charter" 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 #9,894 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