caper
French, verb/ka.pe/
caper is spelled C-A-P-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 164,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caper is a French verb meaning “to cap (set a limit to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enrouler une feuille de tabac autour du cigare”.
What does caper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cap (set a limit to)
- 2
to cap (award a player a cap for playing for their national team)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enrouler une feuille de tabac autour du cigare.
verb: 1. Mordre.
verb: 1. Fixer une limite haute à une valeur.
verb: 1. Faire le meilleur cap possible pour remonter face au vent (à la voile : aller au plus près du vent).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of caper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- capant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- capé participle past
- cape first-person indicative present
- capes indicative present second-person
- capons first-person indicative plural
- capez indicative plural present
- capent indicative plural present
- capais first-person imperfect indicative
- capait imperfect indicative singular
- capions first-person imperfect indicative
- capiez imperfect indicative plural
- capaient imperfect indicative plural
- capai first-person historic indicative
- capas historic indicative past
- capa historic indicative past
- capâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caper?
- /ka.pe/
- \ka.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is caper in French?
caper appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).