capital
/ˈkæpɪtəl/
"capital" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“capital” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,044. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,044
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
Corpus desk
Index EN-capital · capital · English
capital · rank #1,044 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,044
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH brown
Nearest frequency peer: brown (-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 “capital”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- association
association
98,960 corpus weight
- beat
beat
98,959 corpus weight
- brown
brown
98,958 corpus weight
- capital
capital
98,957 corpus weight
- Chinese
Chinese
98,956 corpus weight
- committee
committee
98,955 corpus weight
What this shows “capital” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capital |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkæpɪtəl/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “capital”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around capital (IPA /ˈkæpɪtəl/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,044 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for capital, with forms such as "acpital", "caiptal", and "capiatl". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "capitol", "capitan", "capita", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in M… The correct English form is capital, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- 2Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- 3The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- 4A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- 5The most important city in the field specified.
- 6An uppercase letter.
- 7Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- 8The chief or most important thing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: assets
He does not have enough capital to start a business.
Etymology
From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective. Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”. Doublet of cattle and chattel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpital
- caiptal
- capiatl
- capitall
- capitla
- capittal
- cappital
- captial
- ccapital
- cpaital
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capital - 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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