tour du chapeau
\tuʁ dy ʃa.po\
The verdict
“tour du chapeau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fait, pour un sportif professionnel, de marquer trois fois dans la même partie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tour du chapeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ dy ʃa.po\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tour du chapeau” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tour du chapeau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuʁ dy ʃa.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait, pour un sportif professionnel, de marquer trois fois dans la même partie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tour du chapeau, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 tour du chapeau, spelled T-O-U-R- -D-U- -C-H-A-P-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Fait, pour un sportif professionnel, de marquer trois fois dans la même partie.
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 “tour du chapeau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-O-U-R- -D-U- -C-H-A-P-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tuʁ dy 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.