capoeira
\ka.pwɛ.ʁa\
The verdict
“capoeira” is uncommon French (frequency #57,809 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,809
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art martial afro-brésilien qui puise ses racines dans les méthodes de combat et les danses des peuples africains du temps de l’esclavage au Brésil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capoeira · capoeira · French
capoeira · rank #57,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,809
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canonnier
Nearest frequency peer: canonnier (-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 « capoeira »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- camélias
camélias
42,195 corpus weight
- canonisé
canonisé
42,194 corpus weight
- canonnier
canonnier
42,193 corpus weight
- capoeira
capoeira
42,192 corpus weight
- capra
capra
42,191 corpus weight
- Carmaux
Carmaux
42,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capoeira » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capoeira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pwɛ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capoeira » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capoeira is uncommon French at frequency #57,809 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.pwɛ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for capoeira, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is capoeira, spelled C-A-P-O-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Art martial afro-brésilien qui puise ses racines dans les méthodes de combat et les danses des peuples africains du temps de l’esclavage au Brésil.
- 2Groupement de plantes herbacées ou arbustives qui succède sur un terrain qui a été défriché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capoeira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La capoeira n’est pas simplement définissable car elle est plurielle, ambiguë et complexe.
L’introduction du riz africain, emportés en cachette dans les cheveux d’une femme Noire selon les légendes des Marrons, les rites du candomblé brésilien, du vaudou haïtien ou de la santéria cubaine, ou encore les arts martiaux du danmyé en Martinique ou de la capoeira au Brésil attestent les survivances de cultures africaines offrant des espaces de résist…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).