chef de district
\ʃɛf də dis.tʁikt\
The verdict
“chef de district” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représentant du préfet administrateur des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises chargé de diriger un district.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chef-de-district · chef de district · French
chef de district · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 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 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « chef de district » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chef de district is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛf də dis.tʁikt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.