cheminée de fée
\ʃə.mi.ne də fe\
The verdict
“cheminée de fée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pilier minéral surmonté d’un bloc, résultant de l’érosion.
| 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) |
Where “cheminée de fée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cheminée de fée is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.mi.ne də fe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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.
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Using “cheminée de fée”
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- -D-E- -F-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃə.mi.ne də fe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.