# chamber

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈtʃeɪmbə(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #3,151

## Definitions
1. A room or set of rooms
2. A room or set of rooms
3. A room or set of rooms
4. A room or set of rooms
5. A room or set of rooms
6. A room or set of rooms
7. Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”).
8. The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
9. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
10. An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
11. The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
12. One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
13. A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
14. One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.

## Etymology
From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.

## Easily confused with
- **chaser** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-chaser)
- **Cramer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-cramer)
- **chapter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-chapter)
- **charter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-charter)
- **charger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-charger)
- **changer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-changer)
- **chatter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-chatter)
- **climber** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-climber)
- **Chaucer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-chaucer)
- **charmer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-charmer)
- **chambers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-chambers)
- **chambered** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-chambered)
- **camper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/camper-vs-chamber)
- **camber** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/camber-vs-chamber)

## Common misspellings (11)
`cahmber`, `cchamber`, `chabmer`, `chambber`, `chamberr`, `chambre`, `chamebr`, `chammber`, `chhamber`, `chmaber`, `hcamber`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/chamber