caprine
\ka.pʁin\
The verdict
“caprine” is uncommon French (frequency #93,576 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,576
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de caprin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caprine · caprine · French
caprine · rank #93,576 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,576
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitouls
Nearest frequency peer: capitouls (-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 « caprine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- candides
candides
6,430 corpus weight
- canola
canola
6,429 corpus weight
- capitouls
capitouls
6,426 corpus weight
- caprine
caprine
6,425 corpus weight
- Carélie
Carélie
6,423 corpus weight
- castellum
castellum
6,421 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caprine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caprine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.pʁin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caprine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caprine is uncommon French at frequency #93,576 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.pʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de caprin.".
caprine has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is caprine, spelled C-A-P-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de caprin.
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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