capitule
\ka.pi.tyl\
The verdict
“capitule” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,630
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflorescence formée de fleurs sessiles serrées les unes contre les autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capitule · capitule · French
capitule · rank #46,630 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,630
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caquiste
Nearest frequency peer: caquiste (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « capitule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cacophonie
cacophonie
53,374 corpus weight
- calquée
calquée
53,373 corpus weight
- capitule
capitule
53,371 corpus weight
- caquiste
caquiste
53,370 corpus weight
- carbonara
carbonara
53,369 corpus weight
- Carthagène
Carthagène
53,368 corpus weight
What this shows « capitule » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capitule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pi.tyl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capitule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around capitule (IPA \ka.pi.tyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,630 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for capitule, with forms such as "acpitule", "caiptule", and "capitlue". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "capture", "capsule", "capituler", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is capitule, spelled C-A-P-I-T-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Inflorescence formée de fleurs sessiles serrées les unes contre les autres.
- 2Petite leçon qui se dit dans certains offices religieux catholiques après les psaumes et avant l’hymne.
- 3Article d’un capitulaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capitule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La grande Marguerite (...) offre un exemple de capitule. Dans ce capitule, il existe deux sortes de fleurs : les fleurs qui occupent le centre, jaunes, forment le cœur, elles sont tubuleuses; celles qui occupent les bords du capitule sont blanches, et, la corolle de chacune d’elles est ouverte en cornet. Par suite les lames blanches qu’on arrache sont aut…
En mes souvenirs apparaissent, toutes ruisselantes de la rosée du matin, les gracieuses touffes d’Androsace villeuse, à fleurs blanches avec un œil rose tendre ; la Violette du mont Cenis, dont les grandes corolles bleues s’étalent sur les éclats de calcaire ; la Valériane Saliunque, qui associe le suave parfum de ses inflorescences et l’odeur stercoraire…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpitule
- caiptule
- capitlue
- capittule
- capituel
- capitulle
- capiutle
- cappitule
- captiule
- ccapitule
- cpaitule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capitule - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).