captage
\kap.taʒ\
The verdict
“captage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,828. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,828
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de capter (une source, de l’eau…).
Corpus desk
Index FR-captage · captage · French
captage · rank #43,828 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,828
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Capet
Nearest frequency peer: Capet (-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 « captage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- canari
canari
56,176 corpus weight
- cantonnés
cantonnés
56,175 corpus weight
- Capet
Capet
56,174 corpus weight
- captage
captage
56,173 corpus weight
- Castelnauda…
Castelnaudary
56,172 corpus weight
- catalyseurs
catalyseurs
56,171 corpus weight
What this shows « captage » 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 | captage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kap.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « captage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around captage (IPA \kap.taʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,828 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for captage, with forms such as "acptage", "capatge", and "capptage". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "capte", "cépage", "Catane", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 captage, spelled C-A-P-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de capter (une source, de l’eau…).
- 2Toute action et tout ouvrage destinés à intercepter et éliminer l'excès d'eau externe provoquant des engorgements localisés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how captage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En mai et juin, en raison des fortes chaleurs, la consommation d’eau potable a augmenté de 20 %, ce qui a poussé l’agglo à réduire de 40 % sa pression sur ses captages d’eau.
Le captage du carbone exigera 16,5 G$ d’investissements d’ici 2030.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acptage
- capatge
- capptage
- captaeg
- captagge
- captgae
- capttage
- catpage
- ccaptage
- cpatage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of captage - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "captage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).