chapelets
\ʃa.plɛ\
The verdict
“chapelets” is uncommon French (frequency #66,579 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,579
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chapelet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chapelets · chapelets · French
chapelets · rank #66,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,579
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Champeaux
Nearest frequency peer: Champeaux (-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 « chapelets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CGU
CGU
33,425 corpus weight
- Chabal
Chabal
33,424 corpus weight
- Champeaux
Champeaux
33,423 corpus weight
- chapelets
chapelets
33,422 corpus weight
- chapelure
chapelure
33,421 corpus weight
- chassaient
chassaient
33,420 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chapelets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapelets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.plɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chapelets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chapelets is uncommon French at frequency #66,579 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.plɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chapelet.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chapelets, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chapelets, spelled C-H-A-P-E-L-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chapelet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chapelets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Disaster Duwault jeta alors un regard noir en direction d’un groupe de femmes qui fumaient sur le pas de leur cahute, à l’orée d’un bosquet de pins maritimes. Des chapelets de pièces d’argent ornaient leurs fronts et des turbans colorés retenaient leur chevelure sombre. Il cracha sur le sol.
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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