femme de chambre

/\fam də ʃɑ̃bʁ\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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Confusables

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femme de chambre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Employée d’un particulier ou d’un établissement hôtelier, chargée de refaire le lit et la chambre. Pronounced \fam də ʃɑ̃bʁ\.

Key facts for femme de chambre
PropertyValue
Headwordfemme de chambre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fam də ʃɑ̃bʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

femme de chambre 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 femme de chambre is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fam də ʃɑ̃bʁ\. 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: "Employée d’un particulier ou d’un établissement hôtelier, chargée de refaire le lit et la chambre.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for femme de chambre 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 femme de chambre, spelled F-E-M-M-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Employée d’un particulier ou d’un établissement hôtelier, chargée de refaire le lit et la chambre.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "femme de chambre"?
"femme de chambre" is spelled F-E-M-M-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-M-B-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fam də ʃɑ̃bʁ\.
What does "femme de chambre" mean?
As a noun, "femme de chambre" means: Employée d’un particulier ou d’un établissement hôtelier, chargée de refaire le lit et la chambre.
How do you pronounce "femme de chambre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "femme de chambre" is \fam də ʃɑ̃bʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "femme de chambre" 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.