chapitre

\ʃa.pitʁ\

/\ʃa.pitʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“chapitre” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,265. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,265
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Division

Corpus desk

Index FR-chapitre · chapitre · French

chapitre · rank #2,265 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,265
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH changements

Nearest frequency peer: changements (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chapitre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chapitre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chapitre vs charité
63% similar
chapitre vs chapitres
89% similar
chapitre vs chaire
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chapitre
PropertyValue
Headwordchapitre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃa.pitʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,265
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chapitre »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).chapitrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « changements » (#2,264), « circulation » (#2,266), « champs » (#2,263). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chapitre » est au #2,265. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around chapitre (IPA \ʃa.pitʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,265 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for chapitre, with forms such as "cahpitre", "cchapitre", and "chaiptre". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "charité", "chapitres", "chaire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chapitre, spelled C-H-A-P-I-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Division
  2. 2
    Division
  3. 3
    Division
  4. 4
    Division
  5. 5
    Division
  6. 6
    Matière, sujet dont on parle, propos sur lequel on est.
  7. 7
    Assemblée locale que les chanoines, les religieux (par exemple les chanoines d’une cathédrale, les moines d’une abbaye) tiennent pour traiter de leurs affaires.
  8. 8
    Membre de cette assemblée.
  9. 9
    Lieu où se tient cette assemblée.
  10. 10
    Assemblée pendant laquelle on délibère comme par exemple l’assemblée d’un ordre royal ou militaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chapitre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il nous a semblé superflu, au début de ce chapitre, de rappeler la terminologie employée par l’École zuricho-montpelliéraine, […].
  2. Ce faisant, et en guise d’introduction aux chapitres suivants, j’essaie de cerner davantage la problématique du masque, telle qu’elle se présente dans les premières comédies de Molière.

Synonyms

paragrapherubrique

This word in other languages

chapter(English)capítulo(Español)Kapitel(Deutsch)capítulo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahpitre
  • cchapitre
  • chaiptre
  • chapirte
  • chapiter
  • chapitrre
  • chapittre
  • chappitre
  • chaptire
  • chhapitre
  • chpaitre
  • hcapitre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chapitre - 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.

cahpitre2cchapitre1chaiptre2chapirte2chapiter2chapitrre1chapittre1chappitre1
Edit distance from "chapitre"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chapitre"?
"chapitre" is spelled C-H-A-P-I-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃa.pitʁ\.
What does "chapitre" mean?
As a noun, "chapitre" means: Division
What words are commonly confused with "chapitre"?
"chapitre" is commonly confused with "charité", "chapitres", "chaire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chapitre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chapitre" is \ʃa.pitʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chapitre" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chapitre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

conduire#2,267Canadien#2,261apparaît#2,257souviens#2,251

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

travaillé12 variantsjugement12 variantsproposer12 variantsretrouvé12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list