câpres
\kɑpʁ\
The verdict
“câpres” is uncommon French (frequency #67,419 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,419
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de câpre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capres · câpres · French
câpres · rank #67,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,419
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH curer
Nearest frequency peer: curer (-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 « câpres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cultivez
cultivez
32,584 corpus weight
- curer
curer
32,583 corpus weight
- câpres
câpres
32,582 corpus weight
- céans
céans
32,581 corpus weight
- célébrez
célébrez
32,580 corpus weight
- D6
D6
32,578 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « câpres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | câpres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑpʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « câpres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
câpres is uncommon French at frequency #67,419 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɑpʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de câpre.".
câpres has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is câpres, spelled C-Â-P-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de câpre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how câpres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un grand bol ou un saladier, mélangez la passata de tomates avec l’huile d’olive, une 1/2 c. à café de sel de mer, l’ail haché, le piment, les lentilles égouttées, la courge râpée, les olives hachées, les câpres et le zeste de citron.
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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