caprins
\ka.pʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“caprins” is uncommon French (frequency #65,767 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,767
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de caprin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caprins · caprins · French
caprins · rank #65,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,767
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cannois
Nearest frequency peer: Cannois (-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 « caprins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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34,237 corpus weight
- Cannois
Cannois
34,235 corpus weight
- caprins
caprins
34,234 corpus weight
- carbonisés
carbonisés
34,233 corpus weight
- cardi
cardi
34,232 corpus weight
- Carinthie
Carinthie
34,231 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caprins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caprins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.pʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caprins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caprins is uncommon French at frequency #65,767 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.pʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de caprin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for caprins, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 caprins, spelled C-A-P-R-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel 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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