# chambers

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəz/ · frequency rank #6,445

## Definitions
1. A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
2. Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court.
3. Originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or more barristers in any building.
4. Euphemistic form of chamber pot (“a container used for defecation and urination”); also, synonym of potty (“a small (chiefly plastic) pot used by children for defecation and urination when toilet-training”).
5. In full king's chambers: parts of the sea next to the coast of England and Wales delimited by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.
6. A midmorning break at Eton College.

## Etymology
From chamber + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs).

## Easily confused with
- **chapters** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chambers-vs-chapters)
- **camber** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/camber-vs-chambers)
- **chamber** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chamber-vs-chambers)
- **Chalmers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chalmers-vs-chambers)
- **chambered** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chambered-vs-chambers)

## Common misspellings (13)
`cahmbers`, `cchambers`, `chabmers`, `chambbers`, `chamberrs`, `chamberss`, `chambesr`, `chambres`, `chamebrs`, `chammbers`, `chhambers`, `chmabers`, `hcambers`

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