chapeau de paille
\ʃa.po də paj\
The verdict
“chapeau de paille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chapeau tressé avec de la paille ou du roseau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chapeau-de-paille · chapeau de paille · French
chapeau de paille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapeau de paille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.po də paj\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chapeau de paille” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chapeau de paille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.po də paj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chapeau tressé avec de la paille ou du roseau.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chapeau de paille in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 chapeau de paille, spelled C-H-A-P-E-A-U- -D-E- -P-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Chapeau tressé avec de la paille ou du roseau.
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