chapeauter
French, verb/ʃa.po.te/
chapeauter is spelled C-H-A-P-E-A-U-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 127,906th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chapeauter is a French verb meaning “to hat (put a hat on someone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Coiffer d’un chapeau”.
What does chapeauter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hat (put a hat on someone)
- 2
to head (be in control of something)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Coiffer d’un chapeau. 2. Elle enfilait son manteau, se chapeautait à la va-vite et il était impossible de la retenir. – (Jean Rouaud, Les Champs d’honneur, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1990) 3. Exercer un contrôle sur quelque chose.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chapeauter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- chapeautant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- chapeauté participle past
- chapeaute first-person indicative present
- chapeautes indicative present second-person
- chapeautons first-person indicative plural
- chapeautez indicative plural present
- chapeautent indicative plural present
- chapeautais first-person imperfect indicative
- chapeautait imperfect indicative singular
- chapeautions first-person imperfect indicative
- chapeautiez imperfect indicative plural
- chapeautaient imperfect indicative plural
- chapeautai first-person historic indicative
- chapeautas historic indicative past
- chapeauta historic indicative past
- chapeautâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chapeauter?
- /ʃa.po.te/
- \ʃa.po.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chapeauter in French?
chapeauter appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).