chef-lieu d’arrondissement
\ʃef.ljø d‿a.ʁɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“chef-lieu d’arrondissement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune où est située la sous-préfecture d’un arrondissement départemental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chef-lieu-d-arrondisseme · chef-lieu d’arrondissement · French
chef-lieu d’arrondissement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 26 letters
- VOW-9 9 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-lieu d’arrondissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃef.ljø d‿a.ʁɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
chef-lieu d’arrondissement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃef.ljø d‿a.ʁɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune où est située la sous-préfecture d’un arrondissement départemental.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chef-lieu d’arrondissement in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is chef-lieu d’arrondissement, spelled C-H-E-F---L-I-E-U- -D-’-A-R-R-O-N-D-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Commune où est située la sous-préfecture d’un arrondissement départemental.
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.