chapo
\ʃa.po\
The verdict
“chapo” is uncommon French (frequency #51,346 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,346
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Texte court coiffant un article, généralement typographié en gras, pour amener le lecteur à entrer dans l’article.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chapo · chapo · French
chapo · rank #51,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,346
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cerdagne
Nearest frequency peer: Cerdagne (-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 « chapo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- centralisat…
centralisateur
48,658 corpus weight
- centralise
centralise
48,657 corpus weight
- Cerdagne
Cerdagne
48,656 corpus weight
- chapo
chapo
48,655 corpus weight
- cheat
cheat
48,654 corpus weight
- cheers
cheers
48,653 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chapo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.po\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chapo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chapo is uncommon French at frequency #51,346 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Texte court coiffant un article, généralement typographié en gras, pour amener le lecteur à entrer dans l’article.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chapo in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chapo, spelled C-H-A-P-O.
Definition
- 1Texte court coiffant un article, généralement typographié en gras, pour amener le lecteur à entrer dans l’article.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chapo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chapo ou lancement annonce l'angle choisi, pose la question traitée dans le papier ou son qu'il précède. Le chapo est aussi appelé « lancement » ou « intro ».
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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