dame de charité
The verdict
“dame de charité” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Personne se dévouant bénévolement au service des indigents et des malades.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dame de charité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dam də ʃa.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dame de charité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dame de charité is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dam də ʃa.ʁi.te\. 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: "Personne se dévouant bénévolement au service des indigents et des malades.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dame de charité 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 dame de charité, spelled D-A-M-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-R-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne se dévouant bénévolement au service des indigents et des malades.
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 “dame de charité”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-M-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-R-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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