femme de charge
Letters
15 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | femme de charge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fam də ʃaʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Femme attachée au service d’une grande maison, pour avoir soin du linge, de la vaisselle d'argent, etc ; gouvernante.
- 2Femme chargée de faire le ménage, le nettoyage, les gros travaux.
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