valet de cheminée
\va.le də ʃə.mi.ne\
The verdict
“valet de cheminée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit meuble ou portant en métal, sur ou dans lequel on range les accessoires de cheminée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valet-de-cheminee · valet de cheminée · French
valet de cheminée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | valet de cheminée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.le də ʃə.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « valet de cheminée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
valet de cheminée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.le də ʃə.mi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit meuble ou portant en métal, sur ou dans lequel on range les accessoires de cheminée.".
valet de cheminée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is valet de cheminée, spelled V-A-L-E-T- -D-E- -C-H-E-M-I-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Petit meuble ou portant en métal, sur ou dans lequel on range les accessoires de cheminée.
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.