chambre de bonne
\ʃɑ̃bʁ də bɔn\
The verdict
“chambre de bonne” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chambre à coucher aménagée dans les derniers étages des immeubles bourgeois pour l’hébergement de la domesticité. Il n’y avait généralement qu’un point d’eau pour tout l’étage lequel n’était access...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chambre de bonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɑ̃bʁ də bɔn\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chambre de bonne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chambre de bonne is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɑ̃bʁ də bɔn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for chambre de bonne 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 chambre de bonne, spelled C-H-A-M-B-R-E- -D-E- -B-O-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chambre à coucher aménagée dans les derniers étages des immeubles bourgeois pour l’hébergement de la domesticité. Il n’y avait généralement qu’un point d’eau pour tout l’étage lequel n’était accessible que par l’escalier de service.
- 2Appartement constitué d'une unique pièce d'une faible surface au sein d'un immeuble bourgeois, généralement situé au dernier étage, et initialement conçu pour servir de chambre à un domestique.
Synonyms
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Using “chambre de bonne”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-M-B-R-E- -D-E- -B-O-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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