chapelains
\ʃa.plɛ̃\
The verdict
“chapelains” is uncommon French (frequency #90,529 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,529
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de chapelain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chapelains · chapelains · French
chapelains · rank #90,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,529
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chanoinesses
Nearest frequency peer: chanoinesses (-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 « chapelains »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cesserons
cesserons
9,476 corpus weight
- ceviche
ceviche
9,475 corpus weight
- chanoinesses
chanoinesses
9,473 corpus weight
- chapelains
chapelains
9,472 corpus weight
- charançons
charançons
9,470 corpus weight
- charolaise
charolaise
9,469 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chapelains » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapelains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃa.plɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chapelains » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chapelains is uncommon French at frequency #90,529 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʃa.plɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de chapelain.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chapelains, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 chapelains, spelled C-H-A-P-E-L-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de chapelain.
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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