chemise
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,224
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
chemise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vêtement en linge ou en laine qu’on porte sur la chair, couvrant le buste et les bras. Pronounced \ʃə.miz\. It ranks #5,224 in French word frequency. Often confused with chimie and chérie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chemise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.miz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chemise is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃə.miz\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,224 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for chemise, with forms such as "cchemise", "cehmise", and "cheimse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "chimie", "chérie", "chéris", 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 chemise, spelled C-H-E-M-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vêtement en linge ou en laine qu’on porte sur la chair, couvrant le buste et les bras.
- 2Morceau de toile qui sert d’enveloppe à certaines marchandises, telles que la soie, le drap, etc.
- 3Feuille de papier qui renferme et qui couvre d’autres papiers.
- 4Crépi, revêtement de maçonnerie, enveloppe de mortier, etc.
- 5Enveloppe d’un aliment pour le cuire ou le présenter.
- 6Cylindre creux de métal qui, introduit dans une lumière, en ajuste l’alésage.
- 7Mur de protection entourant un élément fortifié.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchemise,cehmise,cheimse,chemies,chemisse,chemmise,chemsie,chhemise,chmeise,hcemise
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Misspelling Variants of "chemise"
Frequency rank: #5,224 in French
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