capsules
\kap.syl\
The verdict
“capsules” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,086. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,086
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de capsule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capsules · capsules · French
capsules · rank #16,086 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,086
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Capitole
Nearest frequency peer: Capitole (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « capsules »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- candy
candy
83,917 corpus weight
- Capitole
Capitole
83,916 corpus weight
- capsules
capsules
83,915 corpus weight
- carence
carence
83,914 corpus weight
- catalans
catalans
83,913 corpus weight
- chie
chie
83,912 corpus weight
What this shows « capsules » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capsules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kap.syl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capsules »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around capsules (IPA \kap.syl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,086 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de capsule.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for capsules, with forms such as "acpsules", "cappsules", and "capslues". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "captures", "crapules", "capsule", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is capsules, spelled C-A-P-S-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de capsule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how capsules appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme les pertes d’eau pourraient défluidifier le sang, les capsules surrénales se trouvent là fort à propos pour y déverser une liqueur huileuse qui le délaie un peu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpsules
- cappsules
- capslues
- capssules
- capsuels
- capsuless
- capsulles
- capsulse
- capusles
- caspules
- ccapsules
- cpasules
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capsules - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).