caprimulge
\ka.pʁi.mylʒ\
The verdict
“caprimulge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Latinisme) Nom donné autrefois à l’engoulevent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caprimulge · caprimulge · French
caprimulge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | caprimulge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pʁi.mylʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
caprimulge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.pʁi.mylʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Latinisme) Nom donné autrefois à l’engoulevent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caprimulge in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is caprimulge, spelled C-A-P-R-I-M-U-L-G-E.
Definition
- 1(Latinisme) Nom donné autrefois à l’engoulevent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caprimulge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'y vid trois cents et neuf pélicans. Six mille et sezo oiseaulx sëleucides, marchants en ordonnance et dévorants les saulterelles parmi les bleds, des cynamolges, des argathylee, des caprimulges, des thynnunculee, des crotenotaires, voire, di-je, des onocrotales avecques leur grand gosier, des stymphalides, harpyes, panthères...
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.