femme de charge

/\fam də ʃaʁʒ\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

femme de charge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme attachée au service d’une grande maison, pour avoir soin du linge, de la vaisselle d'argent, etc ; gouvernante. Pronounced \fam də ʃaʁʒ\.

Key facts for femme de charge
PropertyValue
Headwordfemme de charge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fam də ʃaʁʒ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

femme de charge 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 charge is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fam də ʃaʁʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme attachée au service d’une grande maison, pour avoir soin du linge, de la vaisselle d'argent, etc ; gouvernante.
  2. 2
    Femme chargée de faire le ménage, le nettoyage, les gros travaux.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "femme de charge"?
"femme de charge" is spelled F-E-M-M-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-R-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fam də ʃaʁʒ\.
What does "femme de charge" mean?
As a noun, "femme de charge" means: Femme attachée au service d’une grande maison, pour avoir soin du linge, de la vaisselle d'argent, etc ; gouvernante.
How do you pronounce "femme de charge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "femme de charge" is \fam də ʃaʁʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "femme de charge" come from?
"femme de charge" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.