Champs-Élysées

/[ʃɑ̃zeliˈze]/ name

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Champs-Élysées is aGermanname. It means: kurz für Avenue des Champs-Élysées; Prachtstraße in der französischen Hauptstadt Paris Pronounced [ʃɑ̃zeliˈze].

Key facts for Champs-Élysées
PropertyValue
HeadwordChamps-Élysées
LanguageGerman
Part of speechName
IPA[ʃɑ̃zeliˈze]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Champs-Élysées 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 Champs-Élysées is 14 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃɑ̃zeliˈze]. 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: "kurz für Avenue des Champs-Élysées; Prachtstraße in der französischen Hauptstadt Paris".

No misspelling variants are generated for Champs-Élysées 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 Champs-Élysées, spelled C-H-A-M-P-S---É-L-Y-S-É-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    kurz für Avenue des Champs-Élysées; Prachtstraße in der französischen Hauptstadt Paris

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Champs-Élysées"?
"Champs-Élysées" is spelled C-H-A-M-P-S---É-L-Y-S-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃɑ̃zeliˈze].
What does "Champs-Élysées" mean?
As a name, "Champs-Élysées" means: kurz für Avenue des Champs-Élysées; Prachtstraße in der französischen Hauptstadt Paris
How do you pronounce "Champs-Élysées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Champs-Élysées" is [ʃɑ̃zeliˈze]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Champs-Élysées" come from?
"Champs-Élysées" 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.