Skip to main content
PlainSpell

chape

Spanish, noun

chape is spelled C-H-A-P-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 87,581st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chape is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “tress, braid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of chapar. With an accent, chapé is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of chapar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cabello trenzado, trenza”.

What does chape mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetress, braid

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present subjunctive

  2. 2

    third-person singular imperative

verb

as chapé
  1. 1

    first-person singular preterite indicative of chapar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Cabello trenzado, trenza. 2. Tipo de molusco similar al caracol, pero sin concha, que hace grandes destrozos en los jardines. 3. (Fissurella spp.) Nombre común de numerosas especies de fisurélidos, gasterópodos marinos, que tienen una cubierta no en espiral sino abovedada, con un amplio orificio en la zona ventral. 4. (Caliroa cerasi) Insecto del orden de los himenópteros que en su estado de larva se alimenta de las hojas de los cerezos, dejando sólo la nervadura. La larva tiene el aspecto de un gusano negro redondeado y despide un olor penetrante.

interjection: 1. Sonido onomatopéyico usado comúnmente para espantar a un gato.

noun: 1. :*Ámbito: Argentina, Perú, Bolivia.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of chape

  • chapes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to chape

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is chape in Spanish?

chape appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What to look up after chape