chappie
"chappie" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chappie” is uncommon English (frequency #66,554 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,554
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of chappy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chappie · chappie · English
chappie · rank #66,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,554
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH charterhouse
Nearest frequency peer: charterhouse (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “chappie”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cerulean
cerulean
33,451 corpus weight
- CFT
CFT
33,450 corpus weight
- chappie
chappie
33,447 corpus weight
- charterhouse
charterhouse
33,446 corpus weight
- chatbot
chatbot
33,445 corpus weight
- chauvinistic
chauvinistic
33,444 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chappie” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chappie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chappie” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chappie is uncommon English at frequency #66,554 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of chappy.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chappie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From chap + -ie. The correct English form is chappie, spelled C-H-A-P-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of chappy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chappie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now Henry knows dead cert he′s in for a stoush, but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie.
Etymology
From chap + -ie.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).