chapeaux
\ʃa.po\
The verdict
“chapeaux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,927. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,927
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chapeau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chapeaux · chapeaux · French
chapeaux · rank #11,927 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,927
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH changeant
Nearest frequency peer: changeant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chapeaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- catastrophes
catastrophes
88,077 corpus weight
- cercueil
cercueil
88,076 corpus weight
- changeant
changeant
88,075 corpus weight
- chapeaux
chapeaux
88,074 corpus weight
- choquant
choquant
88,073 corpus weight
- Chypre
Chypre
88,072 corpus weight
What this shows « chapeaux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapeaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.po\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chapeaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around chapeaux (IPA \ʃa.po\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,927 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de chapeau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for chapeaux, with forms such as "cahpeaux", "cchapeaux", and "chaepaux". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "château", "copeaux", "châteaux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chapeaux, spelled C-H-A-P-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chapeau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chapeaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il donna bientôt à Naïs des conseils sur les magasins où elle devait se fournir : il lui indiqua Herbault pour les toques, Juliette pour les chapeaux et les bonnets ; il lui donna l’adresse de la couturière qui pouvait remplacer Victorine ; enfin il lui fit sentir la nécessité de se désangoulêmer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahpeaux
- cchapeaux
- chaepaux
- chapaeux
- chapeauxx
- chapeaxu
- chapeuax
- chappeaux
- chhapeaux
- chpaeaux
- hcapeaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chapeaux - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chapeaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).