chaperons
\ʃa.pʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“chaperons” is uncommon French (frequency #75,494 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,494
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de chaperon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaperons · chaperons · French
chaperons · rank #75,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,494
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chantonne
Nearest frequency peer: chantonne (-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 « chaperons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chancelant
chancelant
24,509 corpus weight
- chantonne
chantonne
24,508 corpus weight
- chaperons
chaperons
24,507 corpus weight
- charbonnièr…
charbonnières
24,506 corpus weight
- charcuter
charcuter
24,505 corpus weight
- chatbot
chatbot
24,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chaperons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaperons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.pʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chaperons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chaperons is uncommon French at frequency #75,494 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.pʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de chaperon.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chaperons in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chaperons, spelled C-H-A-P-E-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de chaperon.
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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