chaput
\ʃa.py\
The verdict
“chaput” is uncommon French (frequency #72,167 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,167
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Billot pour tailler l’ardoise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chaput · chaput · French
chaput · rank #72,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,167
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chambertin
Nearest frequency peer: chambertin (-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 « chaput »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ceva
ceva
27,837 corpus weight
- chambertin
chambertin
27,835 corpus weight
- chaput
chaput
27,834 corpus weight
- charognes
charognes
27,833 corpus weight
- Chavigny
Chavigny
27,832 corpus weight
- chefferies
chefferies
27,831 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chaput » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaput |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.py\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chaput » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chaput is uncommon French at frequency #72,167 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.py\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Billot pour tailler l’ardoise.".
Zero misspellings are on record for chaput in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chaput, spelled C-H-A-P-U-T.
Definition
- 1Billot pour tailler l’ardoise.
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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