captation
\kap.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“captation” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,716
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de capter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-captation · captation · French
captation · rank #27,716 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,716
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calculateur
Nearest frequency peer: calculateur (-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 « captation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cabaye
cabaye
72,287 corpus weight
- calculateur
calculateur
72,286 corpus weight
- captation
captation
72,285 corpus weight
- carr
carr
72,284 corpus weight
- casiers
casiers
72,283 corpus weight
- Celtic
Celtic
72,282 corpus weight
What this shows « captation » 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 | captation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kap.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « captation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around captation (IPA \kap.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,716 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for captation, with forms such as "acptation", "capattion", and "capptation". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "citation", "cotation", "cassation", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is captation, spelled C-A-P-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de capter.
- 2Fait de mettre le grappin sur quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 3Tromperies, mensonges faits à une personne pour obtenir d’elle un avantage ou un don.
- 4Enregistrement lors d’un concert, d’une représentation.
- 5Détournement
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how captation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D'une manière générale le pouvoir d’achat des salariés et des retraités recule : traduction implacable de la captation de plus de 10 points de valeur ajoutée par le capital au détriment des salaires, […].
Il flairait quelque manœuvre du père, une savante captation autour du fauteuil de l’infirme, que ses vices, si précoces jadis, reprenaient, aux approches de la mort.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acptation
- capattion
- capptation
- captaiton
- captatino
- captationn
- captatoin
- captattion
- capttaion
- capttation
- catpation
- ccaptation
- cpatation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of captation - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).