chiffonier

Questions about chiffonier

What does chiffonier mean?

chiffonier means "a tall elegant chest of drawers".

How many syllables are in chiffonier?

chiffonier has 3 syllables and divides as chif-fo-nier under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for chiffonier?

Close synonyms include commode. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chiffonier a common word?

chiffonier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.