chopine

/\ʃɔ.pin\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chopine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ancienne mesure à liquides contenant la moitié de la pinte, soit 0,465 litre. Pronounced \ʃɔ.pin\.

Key facts for chopine
PropertyValue
Headwordchopine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɔ.pin\
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chopine is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chopine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɔ.pin\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chopine in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chopine, spelled C-H-O-P-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne mesure à liquides contenant la moitié de la pinte, soit 0,465 litre.
  2. 2
    Mesure de volume valant ⅛ de gallon impérial, soit environ 0,568 litre. Mesure souvent utilisée pour la vente de denrées agricoles (fraises, bleuets, etc.).
  3. 3
    Quantité de vin ou de tout autre liquide contenu dans une chopine, demi.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chopine"?
"chopine" is spelled C-H-O-P-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɔ.pin\.
What does "chopine" mean?
As a noun, "chopine" means: Ancienne mesure à liquides contenant la moitié de la pinte, soit 0,465 litre.
How do you pronounce "chopine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chopine" is \ʃɔ.pin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chopine" come from?
"chopine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.