chapeau à trois gouttières
\ʃa.po a tʁwa ɡu.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“chapeau à trois gouttières” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Type de chapeau dont le bord plié en trois endroits forme trois gouttières
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapeau à trois gouttières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.po a tʁwa ɡu.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chapeau à trois gouttières” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chapeau à trois gouttières is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.po a tʁwa ɡu.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Type de chapeau dont le bord plié en trois endroits forme trois gouttières".
chapeau à trois gouttières has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chapeau à trois gouttières, spelled C-H-A-P-E-A-U- -À- -T-R-O-I-S- -G-O-U-T-T-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Type de chapeau dont le bord plié en trois endroits forme trois gouttières
Synonyms
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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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-P-E-A-U- -À- -T-R-O-I-S- -G-O-U-T-T-I-È-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃa.po a tʁwa ɡu.tjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.