capacité
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capacité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pa.si.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Pouvoir de réaliser ou de produire quelque chose, en parlant de personnes ou de choses ; aptitude ; faculté ; force ; habileté.
- 2Quantité d’un contenant, volume, contenance.
- 3Production maximale.
- 4Pouvoirs reconnus par la loi à une catégorie d’individus de s’engager.
- 5Capacité électrique.
- 6Capacité électrique.
- 7Diplôme, attestation, certificat.
- 8Personnes qui, par leurs compétences, leurs connaissances ou leur position sociale sont en situation d’exercer des fonctions politiques.
This word in other languages
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"
Frequency rank: #1,355 in French
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