cape
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,465
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cape is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vêtement de dessus ample et sans manches. Pronounced \kap\. Often confused with ce and CP.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cape |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kap\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cape is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kap\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,465 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cape, with forms such as "acpe", "caep", and "cappe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "CP", "cas", and more, 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 cape, spelled C-A-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vêtement de dessus ample et sans manches.
- 2Sorte de manteau de couleur claire, traditionnellement rouge, que le toréador présente au taureau, dans l’arène.
- 3Coiffe dont les femmes se servent en quelques provinces contre le vent et la pluie.
- 4Capuchon de plumes que certains oiseaux ont sur la tête.
- 5Situation d’un navire qui a la barre du gouvernail sous le vent et qui ne conserve que très peu de voiles, afin de présenter le côté et ne plus faire de route.
- 6Feuille de tabac enveloppant un cigare.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpe,caep,cappe,ccape,cpae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cape
Misspelling Variants of "cape"
Frequency rank: #10,465 in French
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Nearby French words
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