chapeau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,390
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
chapeau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Coiffe d’homme ou de femme, plus ou moins rigide, avec des bords. Pronounced \ʃa.po\. It ranks #3,390 in French word frequency. Often confused with chapel and château.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.po\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chapeau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.po\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,390 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for chapeau, with forms such as "cahpeau", "cchapeau", and "chaepau". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "chapel", "château", "châteaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chapeau, spelled C-H-A-P-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Coiffe d’homme ou de femme, plus ou moins rigide, avec des bords.
- 2Partie supérieure ronde de certains types de champignons appelée aussi tête ou carpophore.
- 3Lignes de texte, mises en valeur, qui introduisent un article de journal ou de magazine, ou un texte dans un manuel scolaire.
- 4Chose qui a un rapport de forme ou de destination avec un chapeau.
- 5Coiffe d’un axe, d’une extrémité d’une pièce mécanique.
- 6Pièce de bois dur sur la tête des bittes.
- 7Sorte de truble.
- 8Marc qui reste au fond d’un alambic.
- 9Trait demi-circulaire, nommé aussi liaison.
- 10Accent circonflexe.
- 11Chapeau de cardinal, dignité de cardinal.
- 12Se dit d'une variable surmontée d’un accent circonflexe.
- 13Pièce de bois servant de plafond aux galeries de mine.
- 14Élément de protection couvrant la sortie de toit d’une cheminée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahpeau,cchapeau,chaepau,chapaeu,chapeua,chappeau,chhapeau,chpaeau,hcapeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chapeau
Misspelling Variants of "chapeau"
Frequency rank: #3,390 in French
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