caped
/ˈkeɪpt/adjective
caped is spelled C-A-P-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, caped means “Wearing a cape or capes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in caped?
| Letters | 5: C-A-P-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 62,179th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is caped?
Caped appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce caped?
- /ˈkeɪpt/
Caped has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-caped.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with caped?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as caped.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: paced, decap.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does caped mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Wearing a cape or capes.
One of Batman’s aliases is "the Caped Crusader".
- 2
Wearing a cape of a specified kind.
- 3
slangcancelled
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Caped in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense wearing a cape:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | encapé |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does caped come from?
From cape + -ed. Piecewise doublet of capped, chaped, and coped.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).