capturant
\kap.ty.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“capturant” is uncommon French (frequency #67,361 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,361
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui génère une capture dans une expression régulière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capturant · capturant · French
capturant · rank #67,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,361
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cassien
Nearest frequency peer: Cassien (+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 « capturant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- calédoniens
calédoniens
32,644 corpus weight
- Canadair
Canadair
32,642 corpus weight
- capturant
capturant
32,640 corpus weight
- Cassien
Cassien
32,639 corpus weight
- cato
cato
32,638 corpus weight
- cauchemard
cauchemard
32,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capturant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capturant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kap.ty.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capturant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capturant is uncommon French at frequency #67,361 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kap.ty.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui génère une capture dans une expression régulière.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for capturant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is capturant, spelled C-A-P-T-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui génère une capture dans une expression régulière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capturant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par défaut un groupe est capturant, vous pourrez utiliser la valeur entre parenthèses plus tard dans la regexp ou en sortie de preg_match par exemple.
On appelle cette utilisation des parenthèses des parenthèses capturantes et l’opération dans son ensemble s’appelle la capture.
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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