capriccio
/kəˈpɹiːt͡ʃoʊ/noun
capriccio is spelled C-A-P-R-I-C-C-I-O. The wrong spelling people search most is caprichio: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 66 of all searches for the word. Capriccio is a noun meaning “A sudden and unexpected or fantastic motion; a caper; a gambol; a prank, a trick”. The plural of capriccio is capriccios or capricci.
How many letters and syllables are in capriccio?
| Letters | 9: C-A-P-R-I-C-C-I-O |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 124,184th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, caprichio, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell capriccio?
Capriccio is spelled C-A-P-R-I-C-C-I-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 66 of the searches for capriccio in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is capriccio?
Capriccio appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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 capriccio?
- /kəˈpɹiːt͡ʃoʊ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-capriccio.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of capriccio
- capriccios plural
- capricci plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does capriccio mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A sudden and unexpected or fantastic motion; a caper; a gambol; a prank, a trick.
- 2
A fantastical thing or work.
- 3
A type of Renaissance landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual and often fictional setting.
- 4
A piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Capriccio in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense piece of music:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | capriccio |
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 capriccio come from?
Borrowed from Italian capriccio. Doublet of caprice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).