capes
\kap\
The verdict
“capes” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,287. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,287
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cape.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capes · capes · French
capes · rank #26,287 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,287
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Canet
Nearest frequency peer: Canet (-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 « capes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Caleb
Caleb
73,717 corpus weight
- calle
calle
73,716 corpus weight
- Canet
Canet
73,715 corpus weight
- capes
capes
73,714 corpus weight
- capillaires
capillaires
73,713 corpus weight
- capotes
capotes
73,712 corpus weight
What this shows « capes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kap\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around capes (IPA \kap\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,287 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cape.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for capes, with forms such as "acpes", "caeps", and "capess". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ces", "cas", "CPE", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is capes, spelled C-A-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cape.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpes
- caeps
- capess
- cappes
- capse
- ccapes
- cpaes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capes - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).