chemin de fer
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
tracked variants
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chemin de fer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mode de transport guidé dans lequel des convois, les trains, de véhicules, les wagons, circulent sur des voies ferrées constituées de deux files de rails d’acier reposant sur des traverses. Pronounced \ʃə.mɛ̃ də fɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chemin de fer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.mɛ̃ də fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chemin de fer is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.mɛ̃ də fɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chemin de fer 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 chemin de fer, spelled C-H-E-M-I-N- -D-E- -F-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mode de transport guidé dans lequel des convois, les trains, de véhicules, les wagons, circulent sur des voies ferrées constituées de deux files de rails d’acier reposant sur des traverses.
- 2Outil de taille de la pierre, servant à aplanir une face.
- 3Sorte de jeu de cartes, semblable au baccara, qui se joue dans les casinos.
- 4Répartition d’un ouvrage page par page.
- 5Répartition des rubriques et des sujets dans un journal.
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