capitation

\ka.pi.ta.sjɔ̃\

/\ka.pi.ta.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“capitation” is uncommon French (frequency #80,022 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,022
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Taxe par tête.

Corpus desk

Index FR-capitation · capitation · French

capitation · rank #80,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,022
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH canetons

Nearest frequency peer: canetons (-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 « capitation »

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 « capitation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for capitation
PropertyValue
Headwordcapitation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.pi.ta.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#80,022
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « capitation » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.capitationtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « canetons » (#80,021), « capu » (#80,023), « cambriolée » (#80,020). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « capitation » est au #80,022. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

capitation is uncommon French at frequency #80,022 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.pi.ta.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

capitation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is capitation, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Taxe par tête.
  2. 2
    Mode de rémunération dans lequel un professionnel de santé ou un établissement reçoit une somme fixe pour chaque patient inscrit, indépendamment du nombre d’actes réalisés
  3. 3
    Cotisation annuelle versée par les francs-maçons à leur atelier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Bourgeois et manants acquittaient la taille, la capitation, les vingtièmes, les aides.
  2. La capitation inventée en 1695 par Pontchartrain, et qui ressemble par beaucoup de côtés à la taxe personnelle que nous propose M. Rouvier, a commencé par être assise de la façon la plus arbitraire et la plus inégale.

This word in other languages

poll tax(English)capitación(Español)Kopfsteuer(Deutsch)

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

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cambriolée#80,020cartonnage#80,027castellano#80,029cavalières#80,031

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list