chaine de commandement
\ʃɛn də kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“chaine de commandement” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Organisation de l’autorité reliant un supérieur à ses subalternes, ces subalternes pouvant soit exécuter l’ordre, soit le transmettre à un échelon plus bas s’ils ne peuvent l’exécuter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaine de commandement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛn də kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chaine de commandement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chaine de commandement is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛn də kɔ.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\. 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: "Organisation de l’autorité reliant un supérieur à ses subalternes, ces subalternes pouvant soit exécuter l’ordre, soit le transmettre à un échelon plus bas s’ils ne peuvent l’exécuter.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chaine de commandement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is chaine de commandement, spelled C-H-A-I-N-E- -D-E- -C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Organisation de l’autorité reliant un supérieur à ses subalternes, ces subalternes pouvant soit exécuter l’ordre, soit le transmettre à un échelon plus bas s’ils ne peuvent l’exécuter.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-I-N-E- -D-E- -C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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