capitaines
\ka.pi.tɛn\
The verdict
“capitaines” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,647. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,647
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de capitaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capitaines · capitaines · French
capitaines · rank #17,647 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,647
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canot
Nearest frequency peer: canot (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « capitaines »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- came
came
82,356 corpus weight
- canot
canot
82,355 corpus weight
- capitaines
capitaines
82,354 corpus weight
- causent
causent
82,352 corpus weight
- cavités
cavités
82,351 corpus weight
- circulaires
circulaires
82,350 corpus weight
What this shows « capitaines » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capitaines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pi.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capitaines »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around capitaines (IPA \ka.pi.tɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,647 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de capitaine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for capitaines, with forms such as "acpitaines", "caiptaines", and "capiatines". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "capitales", "capitaine", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is capitaines, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de capitaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how capitaines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La France nouvelle a donc raison sous ce rapport. Certainement à voir le sentiment d’indifférence avec lequel les populations désempressées prêtent maintenant l’oreille au récit qu’il leur fait lui-même de ses aventures militaires, on a grand’peine à se rappeler qu’après juillet 1830, et durant un trimestre au moins, il passa dans l’esprit de certains mus…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpitaines
- caiptaines
- capiatines
- capitaiens
- capitainess
- capitainnes
- capitainse
- capitanies
- capitianes
- capittaines
- cappitaines
- captiaines
- ccapitaines
- cpaitaines
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capitaines - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).