chapon
\ʃa.pɔ̃\
The verdict
“chapon” is an uncommon French word, ranked #53,196 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,196
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Coq châtré que l’on engraisse.
| 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) |
Where “chapon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chapon is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.pɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,196 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “chapon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-P-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃa.pɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.