maître de chapelle

/\mɛtʁ də ʃa.pɛl\/ noun

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

maître de chapelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maître de musique dans une chapelle, une église, une cathédrale... Pronounced \mɛtʁ də ʃa.pɛl\.

Key facts for maître de chapelle
PropertyValue
Headwordmaître de chapelle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɛtʁ də ʃa.pɛl\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

maître de chapelle 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 maître de chapelle is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for maître de chapelle 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 maître de chapelle, spelled M-A-Î-T-R-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-P-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Maître de musique dans une chapelle, une église, une cathédrale...

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maître de chapelle"?
"maître de chapelle" is spelled M-A-Î-T-R-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-P-E-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛtʁ də ʃa.pɛl\.
What does "maître de chapelle" mean?
As a noun, "maître de chapelle" means: Maître de musique dans une chapelle, une église, une cathédrale...
How do you pronounce "maître de chapelle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maître de chapelle" is \mɛtʁ də ʃa.pɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maître de chapelle" come from?
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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.