chaumière
French, noun/ʃo.mjɛʁ/
chaumière is spelled C-H-A-U-M-I-È-R-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chaumière is a French feminine noun meaning “thatched cottage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petite maison couverte d’un toit de chaume”.
What does chaumière mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininethatched cottage
- 2
feminine(small rural) cottage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petite maison couverte d’un toit de chaume. 2. Habitation familiale ou vieille bâtisse rurale. 3. Tout lieu d'habitation familiale, foyer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chaumière
- chaumières plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chaumière?
- /ʃo.mjɛʁ/
- \ʃo.mjɛʁ\
- [ʃo.mjɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chaumière in French?
chaumière appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).