capture
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,793
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
capture is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de capturer ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \kap.tyʁ\. It ranks #6,793 in French word frequency. Often confused with culture and clôture.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kap.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for capture is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kap.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,793 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for capture, with forms such as "acpture", "cappture", and "captrue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "culture", "clôture", "couture", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is capture, spelled C-A-P-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de capturer ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Passage, pour un cours d’eau, de l'état d'affluent d'un fleuve, d'une rivière, à celui d'un autre, à l'occasion d'un accident géomorphologique.
- 3Processus par lequel un corps céleste qui passe au voisinage d'un astre est retenu dans la gravisphère de ce dernier.
- 4Phénomène dans lequel une particule est captée par un noyau d’atome.
- 5Phase qui précède le déclenchement d'un évènement JavaScript.
- 6Mémorisation dans un tableau des sous-chaînes correspondant aux motifs placés entre parenthèses d’un regex, pendant sa comparaison avec une chaîne de caractères.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpture,cappture,captrue,captture,captuer,capturre,caputre,catpure,ccapture,cpature
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for capture
Misspelling Variants of "capture"
Frequency rank: #6,793 in French
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