cheminée
[ʃǝ.mi.ne]
The verdict
“cheminée” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kamin
Corpus desk
Index DE-cheminee · cheminée · German
cheminée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheminée |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃǝ.mi.ne] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „cheminée“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
cheminée is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃǝ.mi.ne]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kamin".
cheminée has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is cheminée, spelled C-H-E-M-I-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Kamin
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