capillarité
French, noun
capillarité is spelled C-A-P-I-L-L-A-R-I-T-É (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Capillarité is a French feminine noun meaning “capillarity; capillary action” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, capillarite is a different word: “capillaritis”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État d’une chose qui est capillaire”.
What does capillarité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecapillarity; capillary action
noun
- 1
femininecapillaritis
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État d’une chose qui est capillaire. 2. Phénomène de montée des liquides que présentent les tubes capillaires, due à la tension superficielle. 3. Caractère fort délié. 4. Transmission par contact.
noun: 1. Inflammation des artérioles, des capillaires ou des veinules.
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 capillarité
- capillarités plural
- capillarites plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is capillarité in French?
capillarité appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).