captés

\kap.te\

/\kap.te\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « captés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for captés
PropertyValue
Headwordcaptés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kap.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#61,374
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « captés » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).captéstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « carbones » (#61,375), « cannelés » (#61,372), « caricaturaux » (#61,376). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « captés » est au #61,374. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe capter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "captés"?
"captés" is spelled C-A-P-T-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kap.te\.
What does "captés" mean?
As a verb, "captés" means: Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe capter.
How do you pronounce "captés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "captés" is \kap.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "captés" come from?
"captés" 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 "captés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list