pot de chambre

/\po‿d ʃɑ̃bʁ\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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pot de chambre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vase, seau, que l’on utilise la nuit pour faire ses besoins. Pronounced \po‿d ʃɑ̃bʁ\.

Key facts for pot de chambre
PropertyValue
Headwordpot de chambre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\po‿d ʃɑ̃bʁ\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pot de chambre 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 pot de chambre is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po‿d ʃɑ̃bʁ\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for pot de chambre 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 pot de chambre, spelled P-O-T- -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
    Vase, seau, que l’on utilise la nuit pour faire ses besoins.
  2. 2
    Voiture de location de une à quatre places qui desservait les environs de Paris.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pot de chambre"?
"pot de chambre" is spelled P-O-T- -D-E- -C-H-A-M-B-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \po‿d ʃɑ̃bʁ\.
What does "pot de chambre" mean?
As a noun, "pot de chambre" means: Vase, seau, que l’on utilise la nuit pour faire ses besoins.
How do you pronounce "pot de chambre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pot de chambre" is \po‿d ʃɑ̃bʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pot de chambre" 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.