cheminée

/\ʃə.mi.ne\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,671

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

cheminée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Construction abritant un âtre, où l’on fait du feu, et comportant un conduit pour donner issue à la fumée. Pronounced \ʃə.mi.ne\. It ranks #8,671 in French word frequency. Often confused with chemins and chemise.

Key facts for cheminée
PropertyValue
Headwordcheminée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃə.mi.ne\
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,671
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cheminée is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.mi.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,671 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for cheminée, with forms such as "ccheminée", "cehminée", and "cheimnée". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "chemins", "chemise", "chemises", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 cheminée, spelled C-H-E-M-I-N-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Construction abritant un âtre, où l’on fait du feu, et comportant un conduit pour donner issue à la fumée.
  2. 2
    Partie inférieure de cette construction qui lui sert d’encadrement en avançant dans une pièce.
  3. 3
    Partie supérieure du conduit en maçonnerie qui domine le toit ; souche.
  4. 4
    Conduit d’évacuation des fumées.
  5. 5
    Petite ouverture sur le dessus d’une pâte d’une tourte pour permettre à la vapeur de s'échapper lors de la cuisson.
  6. 6
    Couloir étroit plus ou moins vertical (fissure large, dièdre) permettant l’insertion du corps du grimpeur et l’usage de techniques particulières.
  7. 7
    Partie d’un fusil à percussion où se mettait la capsule et qui communiquait le feu à la charge.
  8. 8
    Partie du clétage de certains instruments à vent solidaire du corps, servant à faire la jointure entre les tampons plats des clapets et le corps arrondi au niveau des trous.
  9. 9
    Conduit plus ou moins vertical servant à l’aération ou au transport de matériaux, personnels, etc.
  10. 10
    Conduit reliant un réservoir magmatique à la surface, par lequel remontent le magma et, lors d’une éruption, les émissions de lave et de gaz, ainsi que des projections (pyroclastes).
  11. 11
    Ligne.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccheminée,cehminée,cheimnée,cheminee,chemineé,cheminnée,chemiéne,chemminée,chemniée,chheminée,chmeinée,hceminée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cheminée

Misspelling Variants of "cheminée"

ccheminée9cehminée8cheimnée8cheminee8chemineé8cheminnée9chemiéne8chemminée9
Misspelling Variants of "cheminée"

Frequency rank: #8,671 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cheminée"?
"cheminée" is spelled C-H-E-M-I-N-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃə.mi.ne\.
What does "cheminée" mean?
As a noun, "cheminée" means: Construction abritant un âtre, où l’on fait du feu, et comportant un conduit pour donner issue à la fumée.
What words are commonly confused with "cheminée"?
"cheminée" is commonly confused with "chemins", "chemise", "chemises". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cheminée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cheminée" is \ʃə.mi.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cheminée" come from?
"cheminée" 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.