capturant

\kap.ty.ʁɑ̃\

/\kap.ty.ʁɑ̃\/ adj

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for capturant
PropertyValue
Headwordcapturant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kap.ty.ʁɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#67,361
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « capturant » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.capturanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Cassien » (#67,362), « Canadair » (#67,359), « cato » (#67,363). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « capturant » est au #67,361. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui génère une capture dans une expression régulière.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "capturant"?
"capturant" is spelled C-A-P-T-U-R-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kap.ty.ʁɑ̃\.
What does "capturant" mean?
As an adjective, "capturant" means: Qui génère une capture dans une expression régulière.
How do you pronounce "capturant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "capturant" is \kap.ty.ʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "capturant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list