capella

noun

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“capella” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,216. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,216
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chapelle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-capella · capella · French

capella · rank #42,216 · 8 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,216
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cantonnée

Nearest frequency peer: cantonnée (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « capella »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « capella » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

capella vs chapelle
75% similar
capella vs Camilla
57% similar
capella vs camélia
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for capella
PropertyValue
Headwordcapella
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#42,216
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capella »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.capellase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cantonnée » (#42,215), « cardigan » (#42,217), « campagnard » (#42,214). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « capella » est au #42,216. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around capella, anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,216 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chapelle.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for capella, with forms such as "acpella", "caeplla", and "capela". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "chapelle", "Camilla", "camélia", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is capella, spelled C-A-P-E-L-L-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chapelle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how capella appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Capella (vestis): brevior cappa; insignis est capella S. Martini Turonensis, quae inter principes reliquias regni Francorum numerabatur.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acpella
  • caeplla
  • capela
  • capelal
  • caplela
  • cappella
  • ccapella
  • cpaella

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capella - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

acpella2caeplla2capela1capelal2caplela2cappella1ccapella1cpaella2
Edit distance from "capella"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "capella"?
"capella" is spelled C-A-P-E-L-L-A.
What does "capella" mean?
As a noun, "capella" means: Chapelle.
What words are commonly confused with "capella"?
"capella" is commonly confused with "chapelle", "Camilla", "camélia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "capella" come from?
"capella" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "capella", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cassait#42,219Caitlin#42,211causeur#42,221cadrans#42,210

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

brodée8 variantscoelho8 variantscoquet8 variantsbaveux8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list