chapeau chinois
\ʃa.po ʃi.nwa\
The verdict
“chapeau chinois” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a 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) — Couvre-chef pointu des paysans de Chine et de divers pays d’Asie de l’est et du sud-est.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapeau chinois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.po ʃi.nwa\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chapeau chinois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chapeau chinois is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.po ʃi.nwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for chapeau chinois in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
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 chinois, spelled C-H-A-P-E-A-U- -C-H-I-N-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Couvre-chef pointu des paysans de Chine et de divers pays d’Asie de l’est et du sud-est.
- 2Pièce de fumisterie placée à l’extrémité d’un conduit de fumée.
- 3Instrument de musique militaire.
- 4Nom vernaculaire d’un coquillage (Calyptraea chinensis) en forme de cône.
- 5Pièce mécanique utilisée dans les opérations de vinification.
- 6Accent circonflexe (^) dans les définitions enfantines d’apprentissage de l’orthographe.
- 7Ensemble de boutons sur les joysticks.
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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Using “chapeau chinois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-P-E-A-U- -C-H-I-N-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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