capitanat

\ka.pi.ta.na\

/\ka.pi.ta.na\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capitanat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for capitanat
PropertyValue
Headwordcapitanat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.pi.ta.na\
Letters9
Frequency rank#95,654
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « capitanat » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).capitanattombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « cannelure » (#95,653), « capito » (#95,655), « capitonnée » (#95,656). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « capitanat » est au #95,654. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Fonction de capitaine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how capitanat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "capitanat"?
"capitanat" is spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-N-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.pi.ta.na\.
What does "capitanat" mean?
As a noun, "capitanat" means: Fonction de capitaine.
How do you pronounce "capitanat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "capitanat" is \ka.pi.ta.na\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "capitanat", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list