chefferesse
\ʃɛ.fə.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“chefferesse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui est à la tête d’un corps, d’une assemblée, etc., qui y a le premier rang et la principale autorité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chefferesse · chefferesse · French
chefferesse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | chefferesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛ.fə.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chefferesse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chefferesse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛ.fə.ʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui est à la tête d’un corps, d’une assemblée, etc., qui y a le premier rang et la principale autorité.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chefferesse in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chefferesse, spelled C-H-E-F-F-E-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est à la tête d’un corps, d’une assemblée, etc., qui y a le premier rang et la principale autorité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chefferesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est à remarquer que toutes les communautés religieuses ont un chef à qui chaque membre est tenu d'obéir, ou une chefferesse abbesse ; roi ou reine, c’est un maître absolu.
Une autre chefferesse, la grosse Dongoula, administre son village avec sagesse.
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.