porter le chapeau
\pɔʁ.te lə ʃa.po\
The verdict
“porter le chapeau” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Endosser la responsabilité d’une action, assumer des faits souvent indépendants de sa volonté.
| 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) |
Where “porter le chapeau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for porter le chapeau is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁ.te lə ʃa.po\. 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: "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.
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.
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Using “porter le chapeau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-R-T-E-R- -L-E- -C-H-A-P-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɔʁ.te lə ʃa.po\ (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.