dame de compagnie

/\dam də kɔ̃.pa.ɲi\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

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dame de compagnie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Quasi-synonyme de demoiselle de compagnie. Pronounced \dam də kɔ̃.pa.ɲi\.

Key facts for dame de compagnie
PropertyValue
Headworddame de compagnie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dam də kɔ̃.pa.ɲi\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dame de compagnie is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dame de compagnie is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dam də kɔ̃.pa.ɲi\. 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: "Quasi-synonyme de demoiselle de compagnie.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dame de compagnie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 compagnie, spelled D-A-M-E- -D-E- -C-O-M-P-A-G-N-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quasi-synonyme de demoiselle de compagnie.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dame de compagnie"?
"dame de compagnie" is spelled D-A-M-E- -D-E- -C-O-M-P-A-G-N-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dam də kɔ̃.pa.ɲi\.
What does "dame de compagnie" mean?
As a noun, "dame de compagnie" means: Quasi-synonyme de demoiselle de compagnie.
How do you pronounce "dame de compagnie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dame de compagnie" is \dam də kɔ̃.pa.ɲi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dame de compagnie" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.