captivante
\kap.ti.vɑ̃t\
The verdict
“captivante” is uncommon French (frequency #51,944 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,944
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de captivant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-captivante · captivante · French
captivante · rank #51,944 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,944
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH canulars
Nearest frequency peer: canulars (-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 « captivante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- callum
callum
48,060 corpus weight
- Camillo
Camillo
48,059 corpus weight
- canulars
canulars
48,058 corpus weight
- captivante
captivante
48,057 corpus weight
- carat
carat
48,056 corpus weight
- carcinome
carcinome
48,055 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « captivante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | captivante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kap.ti.vɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « captivante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
captivante is uncommon French at frequency #51,944 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kap.ti.vɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de captivant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for captivante in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is captivante, spelled C-A-P-T-I-V-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de captivant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how captivante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Même dans la condition actuelle de nos mœurs, et en dépit du mouvement d’opinion qui pousse la femme à se désencloîtrer, elle est la matière délicate, captivante et décevante, à laquelle s’attachent les psychologues.
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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