capacité électrique
\ka.pa.si.te e.lɛk.tʁik\
The verdict
“capacité électrique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Propriété d’un conducteur ou d’une paire de conducteurs à contenir une certaine quantité de charge électrique pour un potentiel électrique donné, exprimée en farads (F).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capacité électrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pa.si.te e.lɛk.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “capacité électrique” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
capacité électrique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.pa.si.te e.lɛk.tʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for capacité électrique, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is capacité électrique, spelled C-A-P-A-C-I-T-É- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Propriété d’un conducteur ou d’une paire de conducteurs à contenir une certaine quantité de charge électrique pour un potentiel électrique donné, exprimée en farads (F).
- 2Un conducteur ou une paire de conducteurs ayant une capacité électrique (1), comme les condensateurs.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “capacité électrique”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-P-A-C-I-T-É- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.