capsule temporelle

/\kap.syl tɑ̃.po.ʁɛl\/ noun

The verdict

“capsule temporelle” 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
18
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Œuvre de sauvegarde de biens et d’informations comme témoignage destiné aux générations futures.

Key facts for capsule temporelle
PropertyValue
Headwordcapsule temporelle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kap.syl tɑ̃.po.ʁɛl\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “capsule temporelle” sits in French frequency

capsule temporelle falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for capsule temporelle is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kap.syl tɑ̃.po.ʁɛl\. 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: "Œuvre de sauvegarde de biens et d’informations comme témoignage destiné aux générations futures.".

No misspelling variants are generated for capsule temporelle 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 temporelle, spelled C-A-P-S-U-L-E- -T-E-M-P-O-R-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Œuvre de sauvegarde de biens et d’informations comme témoignage destiné aux générations futures.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "capsule temporelle"?
"capsule temporelle" is spelled C-A-P-S-U-L-E- -T-E-M-P-O-R-E-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kap.syl tɑ̃.po.ʁɛl\.
What does "capsule temporelle" mean?
As a noun, "capsule temporelle" means: Œuvre de sauvegarde de biens et d’informations comme témoignage destiné aux générations futures.
How do you pronounce "capsule temporelle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "capsule temporelle" is \kap.syl tɑ̃.po.ʁɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "capsule temporelle" come from?
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Using “capsule temporelle”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-A-P-S-U-L-E- -T-E-M-P-O-R-E-L-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kap.syl tɑ̃.po.ʁɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.