captif
\kap.tif\
The verdict
“captif” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,268. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,268
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a été capturé, en particulier à la guerre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-captif · captif · French
captif · rank #29,268 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,268
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH camoufler
Nearest frequency peer: camoufler (-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 « captif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Calcutta
Calcutta
70,735 corpus weight
- camoufler
camoufler
70,734 corpus weight
- captif
captif
70,733 corpus weight
- caractérisés
caractérisés
70,732 corpus weight
- carpenter
carpenter
70,731 corpus weight
- Carroll
Carroll
70,730 corpus weight
What this shows « captif » 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 | captif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kap.tif\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « captif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around captif (IPA \kap.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,268 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for captif, with forms such as "acptif", "capitf", and "capptif". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "catin", "captifs", "captivé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is captif, spelled C-A-P-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui a été capturé, en particulier à la guerre.
- 2Qui est dans une grande contrainte, dans une grande sujétion.
- 3À qui on ne laisse aucune liberté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how captif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre autres celle d’un comte appelé Mécyslas, dont l’épouse (Christine), célèbre dans toutes les contrées autant par son admirable beauté que par son esprit et ses vertus, fut enlevée et resta longtemps captive à la cour du tyran.
Ce dernier ayant été pris par l’armée française devant Balaguer, fut emmené captif en France, où il est mort.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acptif
- capitf
- capptif
- captfi
- captiff
- capttif
- catpif
- ccaptif
- cpatif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of captif - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "captif", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).