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 May 6, 2026) - Vêtement de nuit porté surtout par les femmes.
| 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) |
Where “chemise de nuit” sits in French frequency
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.
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.
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Using “chemise de nuit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-E-M-I-S-E- -D-E- -N-U-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃə.miz də nɥi\ (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.