captez
\kap.te\
The verdict
“captez” is uncommon French (frequency #79,139 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,139
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe capter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-captez · captez · French
captez · rank #79,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,139
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caoutchoucs
Nearest frequency peer: caoutchoucs (-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 « captez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Calvino
Calvino
20,864 corpus weight
- caoutchoucs
caoutchoucs
20,863 corpus weight
- captez
captez
20,862 corpus weight
- caricatural…
caricaturales
20,860 corpus weight
- castral
castral
20,859 corpus weight
- catastrophi…
catastrophisme
20,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « captez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | captez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kap.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « captez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
captez is uncommon French at frequency #79,139 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kap.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for captez in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is captez, spelled C-A-P-T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe capter.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif du verbe capter.
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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