chimie
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,218
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
chimie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Science qui étudie la composition et les réactions de la matière. La chimie est l’étude des transformations de la matière par opposition à la physique qui est l’étude des états de la matière. Pronounced \ʃi.mi\. It ranks #4,218 in French word frequency. Often confused with cime and crime.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chimie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃi.mi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chimie is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃi.mi\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,218 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for chimie, with forms such as "cchimie", "chhimie", and "chiime". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "cime", "crime", "Crimée", 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 chimie, spelled C-H-I-M-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Science qui étudie la composition et les réactions de la matière. La chimie est l’étude des transformations de la matière par opposition à la physique qui est l’étude des états de la matière.
- 2Étude d’une molécule ou d’un groupe de molécules.
- 3Mélange plus ou moins bien défini de substances diverses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchimie,chhimie,chiime,chimei,chimmie,chmiie,cihmie,hcimie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chimie
Misspelling Variants of "chimie"
Frequency rank: #4,218 in French
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