Capbreton
\ka.bʁə.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“Capbreton” is uncommon French (frequency #69,656 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,656
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capbreton · Capbreton · French
Capbreton · rank #69,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,656
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caniculaire
Nearest frequency peer: caniculaire (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Capbreton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canaria
canaria
30,347 corpus weight
- caniculaire
caniculaire
30,346 corpus weight
- Capbreton
Capbreton
30,345 corpus weight
- carburateurs
carburateurs
30,344 corpus weight
- carnassier
carnassier
30,342 corpus weight
- Carsten
Carsten
30,341 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Capbreton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Capbreton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.bʁə.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Capbreton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Capbreton is uncommon French at frequency #69,656 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.bʁə.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Capbreton has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Capbreton, spelled C-A-P-B-R-E-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
- 2Pour se distraire, elle les avait emmenés très tôt jouer sur les plages d’Hossegor ou de Capbreton, espérant sans doute une rencontre qu’elle avait fini par faire. — (Françoise Bourdin, Dans les pas d’Ariane, Belfond, 2011, chapitre 1)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Capbreton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait fini par jeter son dévolu sur un coin perdu (à l’époque) de la côte landaise – Capbreton –, y avait acheté quelques dizaines d’hectares de sable rebaptisés « Ma Savane » et y avait construit une maison de bric et de broc avec des débris de bois trouvés sur la plage.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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