# chaperone

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/ · frequency rank #39,244

## Definitions
1. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
2. A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
3. An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.

## Etymology
See chaperon.

## Common misspellings (13)
`cahperone`, `cchaperone`, `chaeprone`, `chapeorne`, `chapernoe`, `chaperoen`, `chaperonne`, `chaperrone`, `chapperone`, `chapreone`, `chhaperone`, `chpaerone`, `hcaperone`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/chaperone