capture

\kap.tyʁ\

/\kap.tyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“capture” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,793
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de capturer ou résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-capture · capture · French

capture · rank #6,793 · 10 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,793
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH camping

Nearest frequency peer: camping (-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 « capture »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « capture » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

capture vs culture
71% similar
capture vs clôture
71% similar
capture vs couture
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for capture
PropertyValue
Headwordcapture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kap.tyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,793
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capture »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).capturese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « camping » (#6,792), « caution » (#6,794), « buteur » (#6,791). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « capture » est au #6,793. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around capture (IPA \kap.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,793 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for capture, with forms such as "acpture", "cappture", and "captrue". 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 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 capture, spelled C-A-P-T-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de capturer ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Passage, 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.
  3. 3
    Processus par lequel un corps céleste qui passe au voisinage d'un astre est retenu dans la gravisphère de ce dernier.
  4. 4
    Phénomène dans lequel une particule est captée par un noyau d’atome.
  5. 5
    Phase qui précède le déclenchement d'un évènement JavaScript.
  6. 6
    Mémorisation dans un tableau des sous-chaînes correspondant aux motifs placés entre parenthèses d’un regex, pendant sa comparaison avec une chaîne de caractères.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La capture des baleinoptères par des procédés modernes a remplacé la tuerie périodique des bandes de marsouins rabattus par les embarcations au fond des baies.
  2. Ensuite, on ne peut pas considérer que la composition spécifique des captures nous renseigne sur la composition de l’avifaune car chaque espèce a sa « piégeabilité » particulière ; le rapport entre l'abondance et le nombre de captures est donc hautement variable selon les espèces.

This word in other languages

capture(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acpture
  • cappture
  • captrue
  • captture
  • captuer
  • capturre
  • caputre
  • catpure
  • ccapture
  • cpature

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capture - 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.

acpture2cappture1captrue2captture1captuer2capturre1caputre2catpure2
Edit distance from "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 "capture"?
"capture" is spelled C-A-P-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kap.tyʁ\.
What does "capture" mean?
As a noun, "capture" means: Action de capturer ou résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "capture"?
"capture" is commonly confused with "culture", "clôture", "couture". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "capture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "capture" is \kap.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "capture" come from?
"capture" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

camping#6,792caution#6,794boutons#6,789écoutes#6,772

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

commettre10 variantsapprouvé10 variantsdouzaine10 variantsdécennie10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list