cap de Bonne-Espérance

/\kap də bɔ.n‿ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\/ name

Letters

22 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

cap de Bonne-Espérance is aFrenchname. It means: Cap situé au sud de l’Afrique. Pronounced \kap də bɔ.n‿ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\.

Key facts for cap de Bonne-Espérance
PropertyValue
Headwordcap de Bonne-Espérance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\kap də bɔ.n‿ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

cap de Bonne-Espérance is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cap de Bonne-Espérance is 22 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kap də bɔ.n‿ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cap situé au sud de l’Afrique.".

No misspelling variants are generated for cap de Bonne-Espérance in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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.

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 de Bonne-Espérance, spelled C-A-P- -D-E- -B-O-N-N-E---E-S-P-É-R-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cap situé au sud de l’Afrique.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cap de Bonne-Espérance"?
"cap de Bonne-Espérance" is spelled C-A-P- -D-E- -B-O-N-N-E---E-S-P-É-R-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kap də bɔ.n‿ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\.
What does "cap de Bonne-Espérance" mean?
As a name, "cap de Bonne-Espérance" means: Cap situé au sud de l’Afrique.
How do you pronounce "cap de Bonne-Espérance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cap de Bonne-Espérance" is \kap də bɔ.n‿ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cap de Bonne-Espérance" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.