femme d’affaires
\fam d‿a.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“femme d’affaires” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme dont le métier est de brasser des affaires commerciales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-femme-d-affaires · femme d’affaires · French
femme d’affaires · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | femme d’affaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fam d‿a.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « femme d’affaires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
femme d’affaires is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fam d‿a.fɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme dont le métier est de brasser des affaires commerciales.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for femme d’affaires, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is femme d’affaires, spelled F-E-M-M-E- -D-’-A-F-F-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Femme dont le métier est de brasser des affaires commerciales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how femme d’affaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’elle soit une admirable psychologue, cela est sûr ; mais quel singulier mélange elle montre aussi, d’une mystique ardente et d’une femme d’affaires froide.
« La seule chose qu’on a retrouvée, ce sont des vagins électriques en latex qu’ils ont oubliés devant la résidence de personnes âgées qui se trouve en face », indique la femme d’affaires.
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.