saint chrême
\sɛ̃ kʁɛm\
The verdict
“saint chrême” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Huile sacrée mêlée de baume, qui sert dans certains sacrements.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saint chrême |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃ kʁɛm\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “saint chrême” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saint chrême is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃ kʁɛm\. 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: "Huile sacrée mêlée de baume, qui sert dans certains sacrements.".
No misspelling variants are generated for saint chrême 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 saint chrême, spelled S-A-I-N-T- -C-H-R-Ê-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Huile sacrée mêlée de baume, qui sert dans certains sacrements.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-I-N-T- -C-H-R-Ê-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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