capello
\ka.ˈpel.lo\
The verdict
“capello” is uncommon French (frequency #60,620 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,620
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cheveu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capello |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ˈpel.lo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “capello” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
capello is uncommon French at frequency #60,620 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.ˈpel.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cheveu.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for capello, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 capello, spelled C-A-P-E-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Cheveu.
Synonyms
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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Using “capello”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-P-E-L-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.ˈpel.lo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.