capiteux
\ka.pi.tø\
The verdict
“capiteux” is uncommon French (frequency #98,853 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,853
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui porte à la tête, en parlant des liqueurs fermentées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capiteux · capiteux · French
capiteux · rank #98,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,853
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caractérisaie…
Nearest frequency peer: caractérisaient (+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 « capiteux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Capcir
Capcir
1,150 corpus weight
- capiteux
capiteux
1,148 corpus weight
- caractérisa…
caractérisaient
1,147 corpus weight
- Caradec
Caradec
1,146 corpus weight
- caramélisés
caramélisés
1,145 corpus weight
- cardinalice
cardinalice
1,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capiteux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capiteux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.pi.tø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capiteux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capiteux is uncommon French at frequency #98,853 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.pi.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for capiteux, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is capiteux, spelled C-A-P-I-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui porte à la tête, en parlant des liqueurs fermentées.
- 2Qui porte à la tête, en parlant d’une odeur.
- 3Qui enivre, en parlant d’une personne ou d'une partie de son corps.
- 4Qui enivre, en parlant d’une musique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capiteux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On prépare encore une boisson très-capiteuse et agréable au goût, nommée cidresse, avec les poires, en les brassant avec partie égale de pommes bien mûres. Mais elle passe vîte à l’acescence.
On m’a indiqué le plus ancien cocher de la ville, dans la fumeuse Kneipe où il boit la bière d’octobre, capiteuse et parfumée.
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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