cappuccino
\ka.pu.tʃi.no\
The verdict
“cappuccino” is uncommon French (frequency #53,187 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,187
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expresso sur lequel on dépose de la mousse de lait, parfois saupoudré de poudre de cacao.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cappuccino · cappuccino · French
cappuccino · rank #53,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,187
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canopée
Nearest frequency peer: canopée (-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 « cappuccino »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calm
calm
46,818 corpus weight
- calmos
calmos
46,817 corpus weight
- canopée
canopée
46,815 corpus weight
- cappuccino
cappuccino
46,814 corpus weight
- cashback
cashback
46,812 corpus weight
- Caspar
Caspar
46,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cappuccino » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cappuccino |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pu.tʃi.no\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cappuccino » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cappuccino is uncommon French at frequency #53,187 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.pu.tʃi.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cappuccino has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cappuccino, spelled C-A-P-P-U-C-C-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1Expresso sur lequel on dépose de la mousse de lait, parfois saupoudré de poudre de cacao.
- 2Tasse contenant une telle boisson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cappuccino appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je connais un café tranquille qui sert des cappuccinos divins.
J’évite les grandes avenues, m’arrête boire des cappuccino, je ne dois pas y être avant deux heures de l’après midi.
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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