chapel
/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/noun, adjective, verb
chapel is spelled C-H-A-P-E-L: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,784th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chapel means “A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chapel is chapels.
How many letters and syllables are in chapel?
| Letters | 6: C-H-A-P-E-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,784th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is chapel?
Chapel appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,784th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce chapel?
- US /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/
- US [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ]
- US [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩]
Chapel has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-chapel.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with chapel?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as chapel from its last stressed vowel (/æpəl/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of chapel
- chapels plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- chapeling US, participle, present
- chapelling UK, participle, present
- chapeled US, participle, past
- chapelled UK, participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does chapel mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- 2
A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
- 3
UKA place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
- 4
A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
- 5
UKA trade union branch in printing or journalism.
- 6
A printing office.
- 7
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
adjective
- 1
Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
The village butcher is chapel.
verb
- 1
To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
- 2
obsoleteTo deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Chapel in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense place of worship:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does chapel come from?
From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).