capacité

/\ka.pa.si.te\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,355

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

capacité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pouvoir de réaliser ou de produire quelque chose, en parlant de personnes ou de choses ; aptitude ; faculté ; force ; habileté. Pronounced \ka.pa.si.te\. It ranks #1,355 in French word frequency. Often confused with capucine and capacités.

Key facts for capacité
PropertyValue
Headwordcapacité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.pa.si.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,355
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of capacité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for capacité is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.pa.si.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,355 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.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for capacité, with forms such as "acpacité", "caapcité", and "capaccité". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "capucine", "capacités", 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 capacité, spelled C-A-P-A-C-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pouvoir de réaliser ou de produire quelque chose, en parlant de personnes ou de choses ; aptitude ; faculté ; force ; habileté.
  2. 2
    Quantité d’un contenant, volume, contenance.
  3. 3
    Production maximale.
  4. 4
    Pouvoirs reconnus par la loi à une catégorie d’individus de s’engager.
  5. 5
    Capacité électrique.
  6. 6
    Capacité électrique.
  7. 7
    Diplôme, attestation, certificat.
  8. 8
    Personnes qui, par leurs compétences, leurs connaissances ou leur position sociale sont en situation d’exercer des fonctions politiques.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acpacité,caapcité,capaccité,capacite,capacitté,capaciét,capactié,capaicté,capcaité,cappacité,ccapacité,cpaacité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for capacité

Misspelling Variants of "capacité"

acpacité8caapcité8capaccité9capacite8capacitté9capaciét8capactié8capaicté8
Misspelling Variants of "capacité"

Frequency rank: #1,355 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "capacité"?
"capacité" is spelled C-A-P-A-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.pa.si.te\.
What does "capacité" mean?
As a noun, "capacité" means: Pouvoir de réaliser ou de produire quelque chose, en parlant de personnes ou de choses ; aptitude ; faculté ; force ; habileté.
What words are commonly confused with "capacité"?
"capacité" is commonly confused with "capucine", "capacités". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "capacité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "capacité" is \ka.pa.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "capacité" come from?
"capacité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.