captain

noun

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The verdict

“captain” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,622. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,622
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitaine (dans un contexte anglophone).

Corpus desk

Index FR-captain · captain · French

captain · rank #14,622 · 10 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,622
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH camionnette

Nearest frequency peer: camionnette (-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 « captain »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « captain » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

captain vs catin
71% similar
captain vs copain
71% similar
captain vs captif
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for captain
PropertyValue
Headwordcaptain
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#14,622
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « captain »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).captainse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « camionnette » (#14,621), « capteur » (#14,623), « bâtie » (#14,620). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « captain » est au #14,622. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around captain, anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,622 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Capitaine (dans un contexte anglophone).".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for captain, with forms such as "acptain", "capatin", and "capptain". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "catin", "copain", "captif", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is captain, spelled C-A-P-T-A-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Capitaine (dans un contexte anglophone).

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how captain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Deux heures s’écoulèrent avant que le captain Nob, flanqué du vieillard, s’approchât des trois hommes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acptain
  • capatin
  • capptain
  • captainn
  • captani
  • captian
  • capttain
  • catpain
  • ccaptain
  • cpatain

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of captain - 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.

acptain2capatin2capptain1captainn1captani2captian2capttain1catpain2
Edit distance from "captain"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "captain"?
"captain" is spelled C-A-P-T-A-I-N.
What does "captain" mean?
As a noun, "captain" means: Capitaine (dans un contexte anglophone).
What words are commonly confused with "captain"?
"captain" is commonly confused with "catin", "copain", "captif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "captain" come from?
"captain" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "captain", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

capteur#14,623buffalo#14,619brûlant#14,617channel#14,629

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

bastion10 variantsbanquet10 variantscommando10 variantscoupées10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list