captée

\kap.te\

/\kap.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“captée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,691
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe capter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-captee · captée · French

captée · rank #39,691 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,691
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH capitals

Nearest frequency peer: capitals (-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 « captée »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « captée » 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).

captée vs carte
67% similar
captée vs citée
67% similar
captée vs caste
67% similar

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

Key facts for captée
PropertyValue
Headwordcaptée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kap.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#39,691
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « captée »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).captéese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « capitals » (#39,690), « carburateur » (#39,692), « cancérologie » (#39,689). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « captée » est au #39,691. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around captée (IPA \kap.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,691 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe capter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for captée, with forms such as "acptée", "capptée", and "captee". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "carte", "citée", "caste", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 captée, spelled C-A-P-T-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe capter.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acptée
  • capptée
  • captee
  • capteé
  • capttée
  • capéte
  • catpée
  • ccaptée
  • cpatée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

acptée2capptée1captee1capteé2capttée1capéte2catpée2ccaptée1
Edit distance from "captée"

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 "captée"?
"captée" is spelled C-A-P-T-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kap.te\.
What does "captée" mean?
As a verb, "captée" means: Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe capter.
What words are commonly confused with "captée"?
"captée" is commonly confused with "carte", "citée", "caste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "captée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "captée" is \kap.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "captée" come from?
"captée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chakra#39,699bondée#39,674chorus#39,709ciudad#39,712

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Bachir9 variantsattirail9 variantsdonuts9 variantsaileron9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list