capri pants

noun

"capri-pants" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“capri pants” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Casual pants or trousers, usually for women, with the bottom hem reaching to below the knee but above the ankle (at midcalf, more or less); usually lightweight and summery.

Corpus desk

Index EN-capri-pants · capri pants · English

capri pants · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for capri pants
PropertyValue
Headwordcapri pants
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “capri pants” in English

capri pantsranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

capri pants is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Casual pants or trousers, usually for women, with the bottom hem reaching to below the knee but above the ankle (at midcalf, more or less); usually lightweight and summery.".

No misspelling variants are generated for capri pants in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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: Part of the Capri Collection by fashion designer Sonja de Lennart (1920–), named after her family's preferred holiday destination, the Italian island of Capri. The correct English form is capri pants, spelled C-A-P-R-I- -P-A-N-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Casual pants or trousers, usually for women, with the bottom hem reaching to below the knee but above the ankle (at midcalf, more or less); usually lightweight and summery.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how capri pants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I see women wearing capri pants nearly every day; they're not as bad as cargo capris, but they aren't the capri pants of Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, either. Those 1960s capri pants were fitted.

Etymology

Part of the Capri Collection by fashion designer Sonja de Lennart (1920–), named after her family's preferred holiday destination, the Italian island of Capri.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "capri pants"?
"capri pants" is spelled C-A-P-R-I- -P-A-N-T-S.
What does "capri pants" mean?
As a noun, "capri pants" means: Casual pants or trousers, usually for women, with the bottom hem reaching to below the knee but above the ankle (at midcalf, more or less); usually lightweight and summery.
What is the origin of the word "capri pants"?
Part of the Capri Collection by fashion designer Sonja de Lennart (1920–), named after her family's preferred holiday destination, the Italian island of Capri. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list