capon
/ˈkeɪpən/
"capon" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“capon” is uncommon English (frequency #75,700 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,700
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
Corpus desk
Index EN-capon · capon · English
capon · rank #75,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,700
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH candela
Nearest frequency peer: candela (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “capon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- caesium
caesium
24,305 corpus weight
- cajole
cajole
24,304 corpus weight
- candela
candela
24,302 corpus weight
- capon
capon
24,301 corpus weight
- caribe
caribe
24,299 corpus weight
- carpaccio
carpaccio
24,297 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “capon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkeɪpən/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “capon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
capon is uncommon English at frequency #75,700 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkeɪpən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.".
No misspelling variants are generated for capon in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō). The correct English form is capon, spelled C-A-P-O-N.
Definition
- 1A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how capon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] You cannot feed capons so.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).
This word in other languages
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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