capsize

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for capsize is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkæpsaɪz/. Corpus data places it at rank #64,246 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for capsize in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: Attested since 1788. Origin unknown. Possibly related to Spanish chapuzar (“to sink by the head”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is capsize, spelled C-A-P-S-I-Z-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.