cheminée de fée
\ʃə.mi.ne də fe\
The verdict
“cheminée de fée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pilier minéral surmonté d’un bloc, résultant de l’érosion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cheminee-de-fee · cheminée de fée · French
cheminée de fée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | cheminée de fée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.mi.ne də fe\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
cheminée de fée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃə.mi.ne də fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pilier minéral surmonté d’un bloc, résultant de l’érosion.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cheminée de fée in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cheminée de fée, spelled C-H-E-M-I-N-É-E- -D-E- -F-É-E.
Definition
- 1Pilier minéral surmonté d’un bloc, résultant de l’érosion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cheminée de fée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De même, au nord de Saint-Gervais, entre 950 et 1250 m d’altitude, une puissante masse morainique à Montfort dans laquelle se sont formées des cheminées de fées, est entaillée par les Nant Gibloux et Nant Ferney.
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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.