œuvre de chair
\œvʁ də ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“œuvre de chair” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acte sexuel de l’homme et de la femme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uvre-de-chair · œuvre de chair · French
œuvre de chair · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Œ" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | œuvre de chair |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \œvʁ də ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « œuvre de chair » en français
Rare enough to double-check
œuvre de chair is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \œvʁ də ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acte sexuel de l’homme et de la femme.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for œuvre de chair, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is œuvre de chair, spelled Œ-U-V-R-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Acte sexuel de l’homme et de la femme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how œuvre de chair appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’œuvre de la chair, ou l’œuvre de chair [est] la conjonction charnelle de l’homme et de la femme. Dans la traduction vulgaire des commandements de Dieu, on dit, Œuvre de chair ne désireras qu’en mariage seulement.
Son imagination, déjà avertie, lui faisait voir, dans un corps aussi magnifiquement ordonné que le sien pour l’œuvre de la chair, les conditions secrètes d’un plaisir assez puissant pour faire oublier le bonheur.
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.