porter le chapeau
\pɔʁ.te lə ʃa.po\
The verdict
“porter le chapeau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Endosser la responsabilité d’une action, assumer des faits souvent indépendants de sa volonté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porter-le-chapeau · porter le chapeau · French
porter le chapeau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porter le chapeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.te lə ʃa.po\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porter le chapeau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porter le chapeau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔʁ.te lə ʃa.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Endosser la responsabilité d’une action, assumer des faits souvent indépendants de sa volonté.".
porter le chapeau has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is porter le chapeau, spelled P-O-R-T-E-R- -L-E- -C-H-A-P-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Endosser la responsabilité d’une action, assumer des faits souvent indépendants de sa volonté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how porter le chapeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— C'était un pak-pak, a rétorqué Fisher. L'a eu que ce qu'il méritait. Mais les flics nous feront pas porter le chapeau. Parce qu'on n'y était pas.
Synonyms
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.