capout
\ka.put\
The verdict
“capout” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cassé, gâté, brisé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capout · capout · French
capout · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.put\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capout » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capout is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.put\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cassé, gâté, brisé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for capout in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is capout, spelled C-A-P-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Cassé, gâté, brisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand ils ont dû marcher vers Paris, ils pleuraient, disant : Papa Antoine, nous capout, capout ! — puis, qu’ils avaient pas leurs pareils pour soigner le bestial !
Du bout de sa main gantée de vert, il se tapota légèrement la tête et dit d’une voix presque paternelle : – Mütze ! – De quoi ? dit Pater en se tournant vers moi. – Il veut parler de nos calots, lui dis-je. – Nixe mutsé, s’écria Pater volubile, mutsé parti, fini mutsé, mutsé capout, a pu mutsé…
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.