capi
\ka.pi\
The verdict
“capi” is uncommon French (frequency #62,840 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,840
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de capir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capi · capi · French
capi · rank #62,840 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,840
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cantonaux
Nearest frequency peer: cantonaux (-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 « capi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cantates
cantates
37,164 corpus weight
- Cantin
Cantin
37,163 corpus weight
- cantonaux
cantonaux
37,162 corpus weight
- capi
capi
37,161 corpus weight
- carnavalet
carnavalet
37,160 corpus weight
- catcher
catcher
37,158 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.pi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capi is uncommon French at frequency #62,840 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de capir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for capi in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is capi, spelled C-A-P-I.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de capir.
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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