capitanat
\ka.pi.ta.na\
The verdict
“capitanat” is uncommon French (frequency #95,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,654
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonction de capitaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capitanat · capitanat · French
capitanat · rank #95,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,654
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cannelure
Nearest frequency peer: cannelure (-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 « capitanat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Candiac
Candiac
4,350 corpus weight
- cannelure
cannelure
4,348 corpus weight
- capitanat
capitanat
4,347 corpus weight
- capito
capito
4,346 corpus weight
- capitonnée
capitonnée
4,345 corpus weight
- captieux
captieux
4,344 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capitanat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capitanat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pi.ta.na\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capitanat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capitanat is uncommon French at frequency #95,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.pi.ta.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fonction de capitaine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for capitanat in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is capitanat, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-N-A-T.
Definition
- 1Fonction de capitaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capitanat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi, entre eux et nous, sans nous être rien dit, il était convenu que je n’avais rien fait, et qu’ils n’avaient rien vu, et que ce qui s’était accompli, cette nuit, sous mon capitanat, l’avait été par eux.
Le père de notre voisin avait été destitué en 1878 de son capitanat de louveterie parce qu'il entretenait dans ses bois des louves.
Synonyms
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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