chapon
\ʃa.pɔ̃\
The verdict
“chapon” is uncommon French (frequency #53,196 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,196
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coq châtré que l’on engraisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chapon · chapon · French
chapon · rank #53,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,196
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Chandeleur
Nearest frequency peer: Chandeleur (-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 « chapon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Catwoman
Catwoman
46,809 corpus weight
- causette
causette
46,808 corpus weight
- Chandeleur
Chandeleur
46,806 corpus weight
- chapon
chapon
46,805 corpus weight
- Chavannes
Chavannes
46,803 corpus weight
- chevalière
chevalière
46,802 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chapon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chapon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chapon is uncommon French at frequency #53,196 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.pɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chapon, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 chapon, spelled C-H-A-P-O-N.
Definition
- 1Coq châtré que l’on engraisse.
- 2Mâle châtré d'une autre espèce de volaille.
- 3Gros morceau de pain qu’on met bouillir dans le pot et qu’on sert sur un potage maigre.
- 4Croûte de pain frottée d’ail qu’on met dans une salade.
- 5Sarment de l'année, détaché pour servir de plant.
- 6Peau de bouc sans défaut.
- 7Nom vernaculaire de Scorpaena scrofa ou rascasse rouge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chapon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eh ! votre stupide république me donne des nausées ! nous ne saurions découper tranquillement un chapon sans y trouver la loi agraire.
C'était une table toute servie pour quatre convives, dont les quatre sièges étaient disposés autour d'un pâté revêtu de sa croûte dorée, d'un chapon flanqué de bécassines, d'autres victuailles et de nombreux flacons vénérables.
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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