Aix-la-Chapelle
\ɛks.la.ʃa.pɛl\
The verdict
“Aix-la-Chapelle” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aix-la-Chapelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.la.ʃa.pɛl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Aix-la-Chapelle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Aix-la-Chapelle is 15 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛks.la.ʃa.pɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.".
Aix-la-Chapelle has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Aix-la-Chapelle, spelled A-I-X---L-A---C-H-A-P-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Aix-la-Chapelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-I-X---L-A---C-H-A-P-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛks.la.ʃa.pɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.