chef de district
\ʃɛf də dis.tʁikt\
The verdict
“chef de district” 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) - Représentant du préfet administrateur des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises chargé de diriger un district.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chef de district |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛf də dis.tʁikt\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chef de district” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chef de district is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛf də dis.tʁikt\. 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: "Représentant du préfet administrateur des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises chargé de diriger un district.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chef de district, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chef de district, spelled C-H-E-F- -D-E- -D-I-S-T-R-I-C-T.
Definition
- 1Représentant du préfet administrateur des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises chargé de diriger un district.
Synonyms
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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Using “chef de district”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-F- -D-E- -D-I-S-T-R-I-C-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃɛf də dis.tʁikt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.