chapiteau
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,146
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
chapiteau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie du haut de la colonne, sur laquelle est posée la frise, et qui repose sur le fût. Pronounced \ʃa.pi.to\. Often confused with château and chapiteaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapiteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.pi.to\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chapiteau is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.pi.to\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,146 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for chapiteau, with forms such as "cahpiteau", "cchapiteau", and "chaipteau". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "château", "chapiteaux", "chapeau", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chapiteau, spelled C-H-A-P-I-T-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie du haut de la colonne, sur laquelle est posée la frise, et qui repose sur le fût.
- 2Quelques autres ornements d’architecture qui forment la partie supérieure, le couronnement de certaines choses.
- 3Corniches et autres couronnements qui se posent au-dessus des buffets, des armoires et d’autres ouvrages.
- 4Partie supérieure d’un alambic, dans laquelle se condensent les vapeurs qui s’élèvent de la cucurbite.
- 5Morceau de carton en forme d’entonnoir, qui se met vers le haut d’une torche, pour recevoir ce qui en dégoutte de cire ou de poix.
- 6Deux ais joints qui couvrent la lumière d'un canon.
- 7Vaisseau sur la cucurbite.
- 8Cornet placé au sommet d’une fusée volante.
- 9Grande tente destinée à accueillir les spectacles, principalement ceux du cirque.
- 10Tente de cirque.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahpiteau,cchapiteau,chaipteau,chapietau,chapitaeu,chapiteua,chapitteau,chappiteau,chaptieau,chhapiteau,chpaiteau,hcapiteau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chapiteau
Misspelling Variants of "chapiteau"
Frequency rank: #18,146 in French
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