Chef de Mission

/[ʃɛf də mɪˈsi̯ɔ̃ː]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Chef de Mission is aGermanphrase. It means: Leiter und Ansprechpartner der nationalen Gruppe von Sportlern bei Großveranstaltungen (zum Beispiel bei Olympischen Spielen) Pronounced [ʃɛf də mɪˈsi̯ɔ̃ː].

Key facts for Chef de Mission
PropertyValue
HeadwordChef de Mission
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ʃɛf də mɪˈsi̯ɔ̃ː]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Chef de Mission 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 Chef de Mission is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃɛf də mɪˈsi̯ɔ̃ː]. 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: "Leiter und Ansprechpartner der nationalen Gruppe von Sportlern bei Großveranstaltungen (zum Beispiel bei Olympischen Spielen)".

No misspelling variants are generated for Chef de Mission 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 Chef de Mission, spelled C-H-E-F- -D-E- -M-I-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Leiter und Ansprechpartner der nationalen Gruppe von Sportlern bei Großveranstaltungen (zum Beispiel bei Olympischen Spielen)

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Chef de Mission"?
"Chef de Mission" is spelled C-H-E-F- -D-E- -M-I-S-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃɛf də mɪˈsi̯ɔ̃ː].
What does "Chef de Mission" mean?
As a phrase, "Chef de Mission" means: Leiter und Ansprechpartner der nationalen Gruppe von Sportlern bei Großveranstaltungen (zum Beispiel bei Olympischen Spielen)
How do you pronounce "Chef de Mission"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Chef de Mission" is [ʃɛf də mɪˈsi̯ɔ̃ː]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Chef de Mission" come from?
"Chef de Mission" 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.