chapelle
\ʃa.pɛl\
The verdict
“chapelle” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,826 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,826
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit édifice religieux.
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 | chapelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.pɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chapelle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chapelle is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.pɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,826 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for chapelle, with forms such as "cahpelle", "cchapelle", and "chaeplle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "chapelles", "charnelle", "chapel", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 chapelle, spelled C-H-A-P-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit édifice religieux.
- 2Chacune des enceintes ménagées dans une église pour y enfermer un autel sous l’invocation particulière d’un saint.
- 3Église dépendant d’une paroisse.
- 4Lieu où l’on célèbre l’office religieux, dans un domaine privé, dans un hospice, dans un collège, etc.
- 5Corps des ecclésiastiques attachés à la chapelle du roi.
- 6Ensemble des musiciens d’une église.
- 7Toute l’argenterie dont on se sert, trésor d’une église privée, royale ou princière.
- 8Coterie littéraire ou autre groupe d’intérêt.
- 9Serre rattachée par un groupe de serre.
- 10Cavité ménagée dans une pièce à boulonner perpendiculairement à une autre, pour pouvoir placer le boulon ou visser son écrou.
- 11Meuble représentant l’édifice du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle se distingue de l’église par ses dimensions plus modestes. Quand l’orientation (front, profil…) n’est pas définie, on la représente de front. À rapprocher de église et temple.
- 12Coffret électrique de chantier.
- 13Hotte aspirante de laboratoire chimique, sorbonne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahpelle,cchapelle,chaeplle,chapele,chapelel,chaplele,chappelle,chhapelle,chpaelle,hcapelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chapelle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “chapelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-P-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃa.pɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “chapelles” - see the side-by-side comparison. chapelle vs chapelles
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.