cap
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,029
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cap is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pointe de terre qui s’avance dans la mer. Pronounced \kap\. It ranks #2,029 in French word frequency. Often confused with ce and ci.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kap\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,029 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cap is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kap\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,029 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cap in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "ci", "co", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cap, spelled C-A-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pointe de terre qui s’avance dans la mer.
- 2Tête.
- 3Proue, de l’avant d’un bâtiment, considéré par rapport à la direction qu’on lui donne quand on navigue.
- 4Direction dans laquelle est orienté un bateau ou un aéronef en mouvement. A ne pas confondre avec la direction de la route, qui prend en compte la dérive.
- 5Direction dans laquelle on fait du chemin, cible.
- 6Direction dans laquelle on fait du chemin, cible.
- 7Direction dans laquelle on fait du chemin, cible.
- 8Étape symbolique d’un processus.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #2,029 in French
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