capo
\ka.po\
The verdict
“capo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,689. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,689
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chef mafieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capo · capo · French
capo · rank #38,689 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,689
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH campion
Nearest frequency peer: campion (-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 « capo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cagliari
Cagliari
61,314 corpus weight
- campion
campion
61,313 corpus weight
- capo
capo
61,312 corpus weight
- capoter
capoter
61,311 corpus weight
- capucine
capucine
61,310 corpus weight
- caux
caux
61,309 corpus weight
What this shows « capo » 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 | capo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.po\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around capo (IPA \ka.po\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,689 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for capo, with forms such as "acpo", "caop", and "cappo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CP", "cas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is capo, spelled C-A-P-O.
Definition
- 1Chef mafieux.
- 2Chef incontesté d’un groupe.
- 3Meneur des supporters.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Messina Denaro se serait un jour vanté de pouvoir "remplir un cimetière" avec ses victimes. À 60 ans, le capo est en tête de la liste des criminels les plus recherchés d'Italie. Il est accusé d'association mafieuse, de meurtres multiples et d'utilisation d'explosifs. […] Le capo supervisait également diverses activités du crime organisé, notamment les déc…
– J’imagine que ce système d’alarme n’est pas relié à la police, mais plutôt au capo Sartano et à ses hommes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpo
- caop
- cappo
- ccapo
- cpao
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).