capitules
\ka.pi.tyl\
The verdict
“capitules” is uncommon French (frequency #70,458 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,458
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de capitule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capitules · capitules · French
capitules · rank #70,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,458
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitalistique
Nearest frequency peer: capitalistique (-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 « capitules »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- canalisée
canalisée
29,546 corpus weight
- canary
canary
29,545 corpus weight
- capitalisti…
capitalistique
29,544 corpus weight
- capitules
capitules
29,543 corpus weight
- carriers
carriers
29,541 corpus weight
- carros
carros
29,540 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capitules » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capitules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pi.tyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capitules » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capitules is uncommon French at frequency #70,458 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.pi.tyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de capitule.".
No misspelling variants are generated for capitules in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 capitules, spelled C-A-P-I-T-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de capitule.
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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