chef à plume
\ʃɛf a plym\
The verdict
“chef à plume” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnalité influente d’un grand parti politique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chef-a-plume · chef à plume · French
chef à plume · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chef à plume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛf a plym\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chef à plume » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chef à plume is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛf a plym\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnalité influente d’un grand parti politique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chef à plume in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chef à plume, spelled C-H-E-F- -À- -P-L-U-M-E.
Definition
- 1Personnalité influente d’un grand parti politique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chef à plume appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, depuis l'automne, [Lionel Jospin] a multiplié les déjeuners avec tout ce que le PS compte de chefs à plume. Glavany, Ayrault, Hollande, Lang et bien d'autres.
Il régnait une drôle d'ambiance hier au cimetière des Grand'Maisons. Un millier de personnes, des habitants de Jarnac, des admirateurs et surtout des socialistes venus de toute la France, chefs à plume et militants réunis dans une mêlée joyeuse d'embrassades et de retrouvailles.
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.