chemise de nuit
\ʃə.miz də nɥi\
The verdict
“chemise de nuit” 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) - Vêtement de nuit porté surtout par les femmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chemise-de-nuit · chemise de nuit · French
chemise de nuit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | chemise de nuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃə.miz də nɥi\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chemise de nuit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chemise de nuit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃə.miz də nɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vêtement de nuit porté surtout par les femmes.".
chemise de nuit has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chemise de nuit, spelled C-H-E-M-I-S-E- -D-E- -N-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Vêtement de nuit porté surtout par les femmes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chemise de nuit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Christine était debout, à quelques pas de la porte qu’elle considérait attentivement. Une longue chemise de nuit la couvrait, tombant sur ses pieds dont je voyais passer les doigts nus.
Elle rougit de confusion. Elle était en chemise de nuit et en babouches.
This word in other languages
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.