capacité
French, noun
capacité is spelled C-A-P-A-C-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears 62 times per million words in written French, the 1,363rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Capacité is a French feminine noun meaning “skill (capacity to do something well)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of capaciter. Without its accent, capacite is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pouvoir de réaliser ou de produire quelque chose, en parlant de personnes ou de choses ; aptitude ; faculté …”.
What does capacité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineskill (capacity to do something well)
- 2
femininecapacity (measure of the ability to hold, receive or absorb; maximum amount that can be contained)
verb
- 1
past participle of capaciter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pouvoir de réaliser ou de produire quelque chose, en parlant de personnes ou de choses ; aptitude ; faculté ; force ; habileté. 2. Quantité d’un contenant, volume, contenance. 3. Production maximale. 4. Pouvoirs reconnus par la loi à une catégorie d’individus de s’engager.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of capacité
- capacités plural
- capacitée feminine
- capacitées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to capacité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is capacité in French?
capacité appears 62 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).