femme de confiance

/\fam də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

femme de confiance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme que l’on emploie ordinairement dans les affaires délicates et secrètes. Pronounced \fam də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\.

Key facts for femme de confiance
PropertyValue
Headwordfemme de confiance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fam də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for femme de confiance is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fam də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\. 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: "Femme que l’on emploie ordinairement dans les affaires délicates et secrètes.".

No misspelling variants are generated for femme de confiance in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 confiance, spelled F-E-M-M-E- -D-E- -C-O-N-F-I-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme que l’on emploie ordinairement dans les affaires délicates et secrètes.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "femme de confiance"?
"femme de confiance" is spelled F-E-M-M-E- -D-E- -C-O-N-F-I-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fam də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\.
What does "femme de confiance" mean?
As a noun, "femme de confiance" means: Femme que l’on emploie ordinairement dans les affaires délicates et secrètes.
How do you pronounce "femme de confiance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "femme de confiance" is \fam də kɔ̃.fjɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "femme de confiance" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.