capital
\ka.pi.tal\
The verdict
“capital” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,652. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,652
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est principal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capital · capital · French
capital · rank #1,652 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,652
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH boîte
Nearest frequency peer: boîte (-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 « capital »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- avantage
avantage
98,352 corpus weight
- bataille
bataille
98,351 corpus weight
- boîte
boîte
98,350 corpus weight
- capital
capital
98,349 corpus weight
- certes
certes
98,348 corpus weight
- cheval
cheval
98,347 corpus weight
What this shows « capital » 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 | capital |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.pi.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capital »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around capital (IPA \ka.pi.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,652 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for capital, with forms such as "acpital", "caiptal", and "capiatl". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "caporal", "caritas", "capitale", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is capital, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est principal.
- 2Qui a rapport à la tête.
- 3Qui est en tête.
- 4Qui est d'une très grande importance ; qui est primordial.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi l’injustice est-elle le défaut capital des natures féminines. Cela vient du peu de bon sens et de réflexion que nous avons signalé, […].
Ville capitale, ou elliptiquement, comme nom, capitale.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpital
- caiptal
- capiatl
- capitall
- capitla
- capittal
- cappital
- captial
- ccapital
- cpaital
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capital - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).