Chemie

/\çeˈmiː\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#78,257

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Chemie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chimie : science et branche d’études. Pronounced \çeˈmiː\.

Key facts for Chemie
PropertyValue
HeadwordChemie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\çeˈmiː\
Letters6
Frequency rank#78,257
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Chemie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Chemie is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \çeˈmiː\. Corpus data places it at rank #78,257 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Chemie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Chemie, spelled C-H-E-M-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chimie : science et branche d’études.
  2. 2
    Chimie : comportement chimique et étude d’une substance ou d’une catégorie de substances.
  3. 3
    Alchimie, chimie, aussi au sens figuré : compatibilité, complicité entre personnes.
  4. 4
    Chimie : présence de produits chimiques ou transformation chimique artificielle perçue comme malsaine, polluante ou autrement néfaste (à raison ou par chimiophobie).
  5. 5
    Chimie : formulation chimique pour une application spécifique.

Frequency rank: #78,257 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Chemie"?
"Chemie" is spelled C-H-E-M-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \çeˈmiː\.
What does "Chemie" mean?
As a noun, "Chemie" means: Chimie : science et branche d’études.
How do you pronounce "Chemie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Chemie" is \çeˈmiː\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Chemie" come from?
"Chemie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.