capitaine
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,387
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
capitaine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grade d’officier, le plus élevé en grade des officiers subalternes. Ce grade correspond à celui de lieutenant de vaisseau dans la Marine nationale française. Le code OTAN : OF-2. Dans la Marine nat... Pronounced \ka.pi.tɛn\. It ranks #1,387 in French word frequency. Often confused with captain and capitale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capitaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pi.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for capitaine is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.pi.tɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,387 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for capitaine, with forms such as "acpitaine", "caiptaine", and "capiatine". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "captain", "capitale", "capitaines", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is capitaine, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grade d’officier, le plus élevé en grade des officiers subalternes. Ce grade correspond à celui de lieutenant de vaisseau dans la Marine nationale française. Le code OTAN : OF-2. Dans la Marine nationale : Capitaine de corvette, de frégate, de vaisseau, officiers de marine dont les grades équivalent respectivement à ceux de commandant, lieutenant-colonel, colonel dans l'armée de terre.
- 2Officier qui porte ce grade.
- 3Capitaine de pavillon : commandant du bâtiment à bord duquel est embarqué l’amiral.
- 4Capitaine d’armes : → voir armes
- 5Grade d’officier des Forces armées canadiennes.
- 6Gouverneur d'une résidence royale et des terres qui en dépendaient.
- 7Officier chargé autrefois de tout ce qui regardait la chasse dans une circonscription déterminée.
- 8Officier qui commande un bâtiment marchand.
- 9Capitaine de port. Fonctionnaire chargé de l'administration et de la sécurité des ports de commerce et de pêche.
- 10Chef militaire.
- 11Dans les sports collectifs, celui ou celle qui commande son équipe sur le terrain.
- 12Nom d’usage du poisson Polydactylus quadrifilis.
- 13Synonyme de perche du Nil (poisson).
- 14Nom donné aux poissons du genre Lethrinus.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpitaine,caiptaine,capiatine,capitaien,capitainne,capitanie,capitiane,capittaine,cappitaine,captiaine,ccapitaine,cpaitaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for capitaine
Misspelling Variants of "capitaine"
Frequency rank: #1,387 in French
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