chancelière

/\ʃɑ̃.sə.ljɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#30,514

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

chancelière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dignitaire chargée de la garde du sceau et de l’administration d’un corps ou d’un ordre militaire. Pronounced \ʃɑ̃.sə.ljɛʁ\. Often confused with chandelier and chandeliers.

Key facts for chancelière
PropertyValue
Headwordchancelière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɑ̃.sə.ljɛʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#30,514
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chancelière in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chancelière is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɑ̃.sə.ljɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,514 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for chancelière, with forms such as "cahncelière", "cchancelière", and "chacnelière". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "chandelier", "chandeliers", "chancellerie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 chancelière, spelled C-H-A-N-C-E-L-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dignitaire chargée de la garde du sceau et de l’administration d’un corps ou d’un ordre militaire.
  2. 2
    Titre ecclésiastique. Dans l’Église catholique, il est conféré à la responsable de la garde du sceau de l’évêque et de l’établissement et de la conservation des archives et de tous les actes du diocèse.
  3. 3
    Fonctionnaire assistant le consul ou la consule dans les questions administratives, et notamment qui appose le sceau sur les passeports et sur les pièces diplomatiques.
  4. 4
    Cheffe d’une université ou d’un autre établissement d’enseignement supérieur, dans certains pays et à certaines époques.
  5. 5
    Cheffe d’une université ou d’un autre établissement d’enseignement supérieur, dans certains pays et à certaines époques.
  6. 6
    Cheffe de l’administration du Conseil fédéral.
  7. 7
    Ministre des affaires étrangères dans certains pays d’Amérique latine.
  8. 8
    Cheffe du gouvernement en Allemagne et en Autriche.
  9. 9
    Épouse d’un chancelier.
  10. 10
    Petit meuble ou boîte, fourré à l’intérieur, qui sert à tenir les pieds chauds (il existe des versions modernes avec un chauffage électrique intégré).
  11. 11
    Variété de pêche rouge qui mûrit en septembre, attribuée à Pierre Séguier, chancelier de France.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cahncelière,cchancelière,chacnelière,chanccelière,chanceilère,chanceliere,chancelirèe,chancelièer,chancelièrre,chancellière,chancelèire,chancleière,chaneclière,channcelière,chhancelière,chnacelière,hcancelière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chancelière

Misspelling Variants of "chancelière"

cahncelière11cchancelière12chacnelière11chanccelière12chanceilère11chanceliere11chancelirèe11chancelièer11
Misspelling Variants of "chancelière"

Frequency rank: #30,514 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chancelière"?
"chancelière" is spelled C-H-A-N-C-E-L-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɑ̃.sə.ljɛʁ\.
What does "chancelière" mean?
As a noun, "chancelière" means: Dignitaire chargée de la garde du sceau et de l’administration d’un corps ou d’un ordre militaire.
What words are commonly confused with "chancelière"?
"chancelière" is commonly confused with "chandelier", "chandeliers", "chancellerie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chancelière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chancelière" is \ʃɑ̃.sə.ljɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chancelière" come from?
"chancelière" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.