chien de berger
\ʃjɛ̃ də bɛʁ.ʒe\
The verdict
“chien de berger” 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) — Race de chien domestique lupoïde adaptée au départ à la garde et la conduite des troupeaux de moutons, et classée dans le groupe 1 ou le groupe 2 par la société centrale canine ou SCC.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chien de berger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃjɛ̃ də bɛʁ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chien de berger” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chien de berger is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃjɛ̃ də bɛʁ.ʒe\. 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: "Race de chien domestique lupoïde adaptée au départ à la garde et la conduite des troupeaux de moutons, et classée dans le groupe 1 ou le groupe 2 par la société centrale canine ou SCC.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chien de berger in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 chien de berger, spelled C-H-I-E-N- -D-E- -B-E-R-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Race de chien domestique lupoïde adaptée au départ à la garde et la conduite des troupeaux de moutons, et classée dans le groupe 1 ou le groupe 2 par la société centrale canine ou SCC.
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Using “chien de berger”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-I-E-N- -D-E- -B-E-R-G-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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