chef de partie
The verdict
“chef de partie” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cuisinier confirmé qui a une responsabilité précise au sein d’une cuisine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chef de partie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛf də paʁ.ti\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chef de partie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chef de partie is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛf də paʁ.ti\. 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: "Cuisinier confirmé qui a une responsabilité précise au sein d’une cuisine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chef de partie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 chef de partie, spelled C-H-E-F- -D-E- -P-A-R-T-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuisinier confirmé qui a une responsabilité précise au sein d’une cuisine.
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Using “chef de partie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-F- -D-E- -P-A-R-T-I-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃɛf də paʁ.ti\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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