capra
\ˈka.pra\
The verdict
“capra” is uncommon French (frequency #57,810 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,810
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chèvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capra · capra · French
capra · rank #57,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,810
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capoeira
Nearest frequency peer: capoeira (-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 « capra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- cassera
cassera
42,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈka.pra\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capra is uncommon French at frequency #57,810 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈka.pra\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chèvre.".
capra doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is capra, spelled C-A-P-R-A.
Definition
- 1Chèvre.
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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