capitals
\ka.pi.ˈtals\
The verdict
“capitals” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,690. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,690
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de capital.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capitals · capitals · French
capitals · rank #39,690 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,690
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cancérologie
Nearest frequency peer: cancérologie (-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 « capitals »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- camelot
camelot
60,314 corpus weight
- cancérigène
cancérigène
60,313 corpus weight
- cancérologie
cancérologie
60,312 corpus weight
- capitals
capitals
60,311 corpus weight
- captée
captée
60,310 corpus weight
- carburateur
carburateur
60,309 corpus weight
What this shows « capitals » 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 | capitals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.pi.ˈtals\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capitals »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around capitals (IPA \ka.pi.ˈtals\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,690 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de capital.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for capitals, with forms such as "acpitals", "caiptals", and "capiatls". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "caritas", "capitaux", "Capitole", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is capitals, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de capital.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpitals
- caiptals
- capiatls
- capitalls
- capitalss
- capitasl
- capitlas
- capittals
- cappitals
- captials
- ccapitals
- cpaitals
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capitals - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).