capétiens
\ka.pe.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“capétiens” is uncommon French (frequency #65,005 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,005
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de capétien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capetiens · capétiens · French
capétiens · rank #65,005 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,005
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caramels
Nearest frequency peer: caramels (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « capétiens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cambrien
cambrien
35,000 corpus weight
- camée
camée
34,998 corpus weight
- capétiens
capétiens
34,996 corpus weight
- caramels
caramels
34,995 corpus weight
- cassa
cassa
34,993 corpus weight
- caséine
caséine
34,992 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capétiens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capétiens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.pe.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capétiens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capétiens is uncommon French at frequency #65,005 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.pe.sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de capétien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for capétiens in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 capétiens, spelled C-A-P-É-T-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de capétien.
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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