capitan
\ka.pi.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“capitan” is uncommon French (frequency #54,454 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,454
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rôle de militaire fanfaron dans la comédie italienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capitan · capitan · French
capitan · rank #54,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,454
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calques
Nearest frequency peer: calques (-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 « capitan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bustier
bustier
45,551 corpus weight
- calmera
calmera
45,549 corpus weight
- calques
calques
45,548 corpus weight
- capitan
capitan
45,547 corpus weight
- carmin
carmin
45,545 corpus weight
- carta
carta
45,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capitan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capitan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pi.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capitan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capitan is uncommon French at frequency #54,454 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.pi.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for capitan in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is capitan, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Rôle de militaire fanfaron dans la comédie italienne.
- 2Rodomont, fanfaron qui se vante d’une bravoure qu’il n’a pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capitan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Capestang ? C'est Capitan qu'il faut dire ! c'est le capitan de la comédie qui a besoin qu'on lui tire les oreilles !
Sigognac, bien stylé par Blazius et servi par une intelligence naturelle, fut de la plus réjouissante extravagance dans le rôle du capitan.
This word in other languages
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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