capitalise
\ka.pi.ta.liz\
The verdict
“capitalise” is uncommon French (frequency #75,477 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,477
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe capitaliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capitalise · capitalise · French
capitalise · rank #75,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,477
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canonnière
Nearest frequency peer: canonnière (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « capitalise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calédonienne
calédonienne
24,527 corpus weight
- canes
canes
24,526 corpus weight
- canonnière
canonnière
24,525 corpus weight
- capitalise
capitalise
24,524 corpus weight
- carabins
carabins
24,523 corpus weight
- casanier
casanier
24,521 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capitalise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capitalise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.pi.ta.liz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capitalise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capitalise is uncommon French at frequency #75,477 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.pi.ta.liz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for capitalise, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is capitalise, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe capitaliser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe capitaliser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe capitaliser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe capitaliser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe capitaliser.
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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