cheminée
\ʃə.mi.ne\
The verdict
“cheminée” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,671 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,671
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Construction abritant un âtre, où l’on fait du feu, et comportant un conduit pour donner issue à la fumée.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheminée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cheminée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cheminée is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cheminée, with forms such as "ccheminée", "cehminée", and "cheimnée". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cheminée, spelled C-H-E-M-I-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Construction abritant un âtre, où l’on fait du feu, et comportant un conduit pour donner issue à la fumée.
- 2Partie inférieure de cette construction qui lui sert d’encadrement en avançant dans une pièce.
- 3Partie supérieure du conduit en maçonnerie qui domine le toit ; souche.
- 4Conduit d’évacuation des fumées.
- 5Petite ouverture sur le dessus d’une pâte d’une tourte pour permettre à la vapeur de s'échapper lors de la cuisson.
- 6Couloir étroit plus ou moins vertical (fissure large, dièdre) permettant l’insertion du corps du grimpeur et l’usage de techniques particulières.
- 7Partie d’un fusil à percussion où se mettait la capsule et qui communiquait le feu à la charge.
- 8Partie 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.
- 9Conduit plus ou moins vertical servant à l’aération ou au transport de matériaux, personnels, etc.
- 10Conduit 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).
- 11Ligne.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cheminée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cheminée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-M-I-N-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃə.mi.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “chemins” - see the side-by-side comparison. cheminée vs chemins
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.