chapel
\ʃa.pɛl\
The verdict
“chapel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,979. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,979
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de chapeau ; pour le sens de « couronne de fleurs » → voir chapeler et chapelet en ancien français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chapel · chapel · French
chapel · rank #48,979 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,979
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chansonnier
Nearest frequency peer: chansonnier (-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 « chapel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cedar
cedar
51,026 corpus weight
- chansonnier
chansonnier
51,023 corpus weight
- chapel
chapel
51,022 corpus weight
- chient
chient
51,021 corpus weight
- Christchurch
Christchurch
51,019 corpus weight
- chypriotes
chypriotes
51,018 corpus weight
What this shows « chapel » 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 | chapel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.pɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chapel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chapel (IPA \ʃa.pɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,979 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante de chapeau ; pour le sens de « couronne de fleurs » → voir chapeler et chapelet en ancien français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chapel, with forms such as "cahpel", "cchapel", and "chaepl". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chase", "chope", "choper", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chapel, spelled C-H-A-P-E-L.
Definition
- 1Variante de chapeau ; pour le sens de « couronne de fleurs » → voir chapeler et chapelet en ancien français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chapel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les filles n’apportaient à leur mari que leur cœur et une verte couronne, ou, comme on l’appelait, un chapel de fleurs.
Il est à présumer que l’usage des chapels de fleurs se perdit lorsque l’opulence, dédaignant une parure que tout le monde pouvait se procurer à peu de frais, y substitua des couronnes ornées de rubans, de bandes d’or ou d’argent et de pierreries.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahpel
- cchapel
- chaepl
- chapell
- chaple
- chappel
- chhapel
- chpael
- hcapel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chapel - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "chapel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).