Chapdelaine
\ʃap.də.lɛn\
The verdict
“Chapdelaine” is uncommon French (frequency #53,850 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,850
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chapdelaine · Chapdelaine · French
Chapdelaine · rank #53,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,850
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chanteloup
Nearest frequency peer: Chanteloup (-1 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Chapdelaine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chamane
chamane
46,153 corpus weight
- Chanteloup
Chanteloup
46,152 corpus weight
- Chapdelaine
Chapdelaine
46,151 corpus weight
- charogne
charogne
46,150 corpus weight
- chica
chica
46,149 corpus weight
- chivas
chivas
46,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Chapdelaine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chapdelaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃap.də.lɛn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Chapdelaine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Chapdelaine is uncommon French at frequency #53,850 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃap.də.lɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Chapdelaine in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chapdelaine, spelled C-H-A-P-D-E-L-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Chapdelaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au CHSLD Les Pommetiers de Beloeil (...), est décédé Mᵐᵉ Lucille Chapdelaine à l'âge de 98 ans.
Maria Chapdelaine
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).