capacitive
"capacitive" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“capacitive” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #45,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,252
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to electrostatic capacitance.
Corpus desk
Index EN-capacitive · capacitive · English
capacitive · rank #45,252 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,252
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cameroonian
Nearest frequency peer: Cameroonian (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “capacitive”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bunks
bunks
54,752 corpus weight
- butchering
butchering
54,751 corpus weight
- Cameroonian
Cameroonian
54,750 corpus weight
- capacitive
capacitive
54,749 corpus weight
- carapace
carapace
54,747 corpus weight
- Carew
Carew
54,746 corpus weight
What this shows “capacitive” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capacitive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “capacitive”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around capacitive, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,252 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Of or pertaining to electrostatic capacitance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for capacitive, with forms such as "acpacitive", "caapcitive", and "capaccitive". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is capacitive, spelled C-A-P-A-C-I-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to electrostatic capacitance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capacitive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Capacitive touchscreens are all glass and designed for use in ATMs and similar kiosk-type applications.
A line voltage detector unit ascertains where the supply is 25 kV. or 6.25 kV. and appropriate connections of the transformer primary winding are made through voltage-sensitive relays fed from a capacitive potential divider.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpacitive
- caapcitive
- capaccitive
- capaciitve
- capacitiev
- capacitivve
- capacittive
- capacitvie
- capactiive
- capaictive
- capcaitive
- cappacitive
- ccapacitive
- cpaacitive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capacitive - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).