captés
\kap.te\
The verdict
“captés” is uncommon French (frequency #61,374 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,374
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe capter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-captes · captés · French
captés · rank #61,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,374
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carbones
Nearest frequency peer: carbones (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « captés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cancale
Cancale
38,631 corpus weight
- canneberge
canneberge
38,630 corpus weight
- cannelés
cannelés
38,629 corpus weight
- captés
captés
38,627 corpus weight
- carbones
carbones
38,626 corpus weight
- caricaturaux
caricaturaux
38,625 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « captés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | captés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kap.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « captés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
captés is uncommon French at frequency #61,374 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kap.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe capter.".
captés doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 captés, spelled C-A-P-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe capter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how captés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La douceur et la beauté des territoires ultramarins français, captés par le photographe Charly Triballeau.
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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