maître de chapelle
\mɛtʁ də ʃa.pɛl\
The verdict
“maître de chapelle” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Maître de musique dans une chapelle, une église, une cathédrale...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maître de chapelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ də ʃa.pɛl\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maître de chapelle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maître de chapelle is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛtʁ də ʃa.pɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Maître de musique dans une chapelle, une église, une cathédrale...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for maître de chapelle in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is maître de chapelle, spelled M-A-Î-T-R-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-P-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Maître de musique dans une chapelle, une église, une cathédrale...
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “maître de chapelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-Î-T-R-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-P-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛtʁ də ʃa.pɛl\ (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.