tour du chapeau
\tuʁ dy ʃa.po\
The verdict
“tour du chapeau” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- 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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tour du chapeau is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tuʁ dy 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: "Fait, pour un sportif professionnel, de marquer trois fois dans la même partie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tour du chapeau in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 tour du chapeau, spelled T-O-U-R- -D-U- -C-H-A-P-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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- 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.
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