chapelure
\ʃa.pə.lyʁ\
The verdict
“chapelure” is uncommon French (frequency #66,580 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,580
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pain séché au four et finement émietté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chapelure · chapelure · French
chapelure · rank #66,580 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,580
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chapelets
Nearest frequency peer: chapelets (-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 « chapelure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- chaînette
chaînette
33,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chapelure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapelure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.pə.lyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chapelure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chapelure is uncommon French at frequency #66,580 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.pə.lyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pain séché au four et finement émietté.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chapelure, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 chapelure, spelled C-H-A-P-E-L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Pain séché au four et finement émietté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chapelure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Roulez chaque escalope dans la farine, puis dans les œufs battus et enfin dans la chapelure.
Et, au-dessus du fourneau, plus haut que les écumoires, les cuillers, les fourchettes à longs manches, dans une rangée de tiroirs numérotés, s’alignaient les chapelures, la fine et la grosse, les mies de pain pour paner, les épices, le girofle, la muscade, les poivres.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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