caprices
\ka.pʁis\
The verdict
“caprices” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,230. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,230
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caprice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caprices · caprices · French
caprices · rank #19,230 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,230
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitulation
Nearest frequency peer: capitulation (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « caprices »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cabanes
cabanes
80,774 corpus weight
- cachant
cachant
80,773 corpus weight
- capitulation
capitulation
80,772 corpus weight
- caprices
caprices
80,771 corpus weight
- castille
castille
80,770 corpus weight
- Cci
Cci
80,769 corpus weight
What this shows « caprices » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caprices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pʁis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caprices »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around caprices (IPA \ka.pʁis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,230 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de caprice.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for caprices, with forms such as "acprices", "capirces", and "capprices". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "caries", "caprice", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is caprices, spelled C-A-P-R-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caprice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caprices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi faisait M. Picard, qui, ministre à Bruxelles, trouvait plus commode encore de toucher les appointements attachés à des fonctions qu’il ne remplissait point, et ne débougeait pas de Paris, secondant de son vote docile les caprices de M. Thiers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acprices
- capirces
- capprices
- caprcies
- capricces
- capricess
- capricse
- capriecs
- caprrices
- carpices
- ccaprices
- cparices
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caprices - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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