capharnaüm
\ka.faʁ.na.ɔm\
The verdict
“capharnaüm” is uncommon French (frequency #68,881 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,881
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu qui renferme beaucoup d’objets entassés confusément.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capharnaum · capharnaüm · French
capharnaüm · rank #68,881 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,881
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canonnade
Nearest frequency peer: canonnade (-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 « capharnaüm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cambrure
cambrure
31,123 corpus weight
- camouflée
camouflée
31,122 corpus weight
- canonnade
canonnade
31,121 corpus weight
- capharnaüm
capharnaüm
31,120 corpus weight
- carapaces
carapaces
31,118 corpus weight
- Cardona
Cardona
31,117 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capharnaüm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capharnaüm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.faʁ.na.ɔm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capharnaüm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capharnaüm is uncommon French at frequency #68,881 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.faʁ.na.ɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for capharnaüm 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is capharnaüm, spelled C-A-P-H-A-R-N-A-Ü-M.
Definition
- 1Lieu qui renferme beaucoup d’objets entassés confusément.
- 2Fouillis, amas confus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capharnaüm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, lui, par mollesse, par paresse, a été prendre, suspendue à son clou dans mon laboratoire, la clef du capharnaüm !
Le musée de la ville [Douai] est le plus étrange capharnaüm d’affectation moderne, de copies, de bric-à-brac de toutes les peintures, avec un bon portrait du temps de Van Dyck et quelques flamands à peu près authentiques, éclaboussures d’un beau jet d’eau recueilli ailleurs.
This word in other languages
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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