capoter
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,690
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
capoter is aFrenchverb. It means: Être renversé sens dessus dessous, en parlant d’une embarcation, d’une automobile, d’un avion. Pronounced \ka.pɔ.te\. Often confused with capte and coter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.pɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for capoter is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.pɔ.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,690 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for capoter, with forms such as "acpoter", "caopter", and "capoetr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "capte", "coter", "carter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is capoter, spelled C-A-P-O-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être renversé sens dessus dessous, en parlant d’une embarcation, d’une automobile, d’un avion.
- 2Échouer, annuler.
- 3S’exciter, s’emballer.
- 4Faire une crise de colère, d’impatience ou d’indignation, péter les plombs.
- 5Faire une crise causée par un sentiment d’impuissance, perdre les pédales.
- 6Perdre la raison.
- 7Protéger par un capot, recouvrir d’un capot.
- 8Faire grand cas de, avoir une grande passion pour.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpoter,caopter,capoetr,capoterr,capotre,capotter,cappoter,captoer,ccapoter,cpaoter
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Misspelling Variants of "capoter"
Frequency rank: #38,690 in French
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