chair de poule

/[ʃɛʁ də pul]/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chair de poule is aGermannoun. It means: Gänsehaut (chair d'oie) Pronounced [ʃɛʁ də pul].

Key facts for chair de poule
PropertyValue
Headwordchair de poule
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʃɛʁ də pul]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chair de poule is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for chair de poule is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃɛʁ də pul]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gänsehaut (chair d'oie)".

No misspelling variants are generated for chair de poule in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is chair de poule, spelled C-H-A-I-R- -D-E- -P-O-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gänsehaut (chair d'oie)

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chair de poule"?
"chair de poule" is spelled C-H-A-I-R- -D-E- -P-O-U-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃɛʁ də pul].
What does "chair de poule" mean?
As a noun, "chair de poule" means: Gänsehaut (chair d'oie)
How do you pronounce "chair de poule"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chair de poule" is [ʃɛʁ də pul]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chair de poule" come from?
"chair de poule" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.