capsule articulaire
\kap.syl aʁ.ti.ky.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“capsule articulaire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Capsule en forme de manchon, constituée de deux couches, une capsule fibreuse (stratum fibrosum) à l’extérieur et une membrane synoviale (stratum synoviale) à l’intérieur entoure l’articulation syn...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capsule articulaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kap.syl aʁ.ti.ky.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “capsule articulaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for capsule articulaire is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kap.syl aʁ.ti.ky.lɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Capsule en forme de manchon, constituée de deux couches, une capsule fibreuse (stratum fibrosum) à l’extérieur et une membrane synoviale (stratum synoviale) à l’intérieur entoure l’articulation syn...".
No misspelling variants are generated for capsule articulaire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is capsule articulaire, spelled C-A-P-S-U-L-E- -A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capsule en forme de manchon, constituée de deux couches, une capsule fibreuse (stratum fibrosum) à l’extérieur et une membrane synoviale (stratum synoviale) à l’intérieur entoure l’articulation synoviale, contient la cavité articulaire et unit les os.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-P-S-U-L-E- -A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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