sur les chapeaux de roues
\syʁ lɛ ʃa.po də ʁu\
The verdict
“sur les chapeaux de roues” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapidement, voire trop vite, en parlant d’un véhicule qui démarre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sur-les-chapeaux-de-roue · sur les chapeaux de roues · French
sur les chapeaux de roues · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 25 letters
- VOW-10 10 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | sur les chapeaux de roues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \syʁ lɛ ʃa.po də ʁu\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sur les chapeaux de roues is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \syʁ lɛ ʃa.po də ʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sur les chapeaux de roues, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sur les chapeaux de roues, spelled S-U-R- -L-E-S- -C-H-A-P-E-A-U-X- -D-E- -R-O-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Rapidement, voire trop vite, en parlant d’un véhicule qui démarre.
- 2Très rapidement.
- 3Situation qui se déroule de manière peu commune et inattendue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sur les chapeaux de roues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette voiture a démarré sur les chapeaux de roues.
Un spectacle parti sur les chapeaux de roues et qui doit faire relâche, à pleine placé sur orbite, est un spectacle qui capote.
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.