chapeau
/ʃa.po/
The verdict
“chapeau” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,452 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,452
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sombrero.
Corpus desk
Index ES-chapeau · chapeau · Spanish
chapeau · rank #64,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,452
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cerrándose
Nearest frequency peer: cerrándose (-3 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “chapeau”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- censuraron
censuraron
35,555 corpus weight
- centena
centena
35,554 corpus weight
- cerrándose
cerrándose
35,552 corpus weight
- chapeau
chapeau
35,549 corpus weight
- circunda
circunda
35,544 corpus weight
- citation
citation
35,543 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “chapeau” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapeau |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃa.po/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “chapeau” en español
Rare enough to double-check
chapeau is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,452 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʃa.po/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for chapeau in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is chapeau, spelled C-H-A-P-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Sombrero.
- 2Chapó.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).