chapeaute
\ʃa.pɔt\
The verdict
“chapeaute” is uncommon French (frequency #73,820 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,820
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chapeauter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chapeaute · chapeaute · French
chapeaute · rank #73,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,820
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charmeuse
Nearest frequency peer: charmeuse (+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 « chapeaute »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CGV
CGV
26,183 corpus weight
- chapeaute
chapeaute
26,181 corpus weight
- charmeuse
charmeuse
26,180 corpus weight
- charnelles
charnelles
26,179 corpus weight
- chasseresse
chasseresse
26,178 corpus weight
- chatouilleux
chatouilleux
26,177 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chapeaute » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapeaute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃa.pɔt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chapeaute » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chapeaute is uncommon French at frequency #73,820 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃa.pɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
chapeaute doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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 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 chapeaute, spelled C-H-A-P-E-A-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chapeauter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe chapeauter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe chapeauter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe chapeauter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe chapeauter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chapeaute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’actuel directeur sportif Michel Marfaing faisait d’ailleurs partie de cette première promotion, lui qui aujourd’hui chapeaute une trentaine de jeunes de 17 à 23 ans.
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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