capital social
\ka.pi.tal sɔ.sjal\
The verdict
“capital social” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Somme des différents apports effectués par les associés lors de la constitution d’une société commerciale (sauf apport en industrie). Il peut être divisé en parts sociales (SARL, EURL, SNC, SCS) ou...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capital social |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pi.tal sɔ.sjal\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “capital social” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for capital social is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.pi.tal sɔ.sjal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for capital social in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 capital social, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-L- -S-O-C-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Somme des différents apports effectués par les associés lors de la constitution d’une société commerciale (sauf apport en industrie). Il peut être divisé en parts sociales (SARL, EURL, SNC, SCS) ou en actions (SA, SCA). Il constitue le gage général des créanciers de la société.
- 2Ensemble des ressources sociales mobilisables par un individu ou un groupe, telles que les relations, les réseaux, les normes de réciprocité et la confiance, qui facilitent l’action collective ou individuelle.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “capital social”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-P-I-T-A-L- -S-O-C-I-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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